Richard Beavisartist • painterExmouth 1824-1896 London

Very little is known about the English painter Richard Beavis. We know that he was born in Exmouth in 1824 and moved to London in 1846 to attend the academy at Somerset House. From 1852 his work was admitted to the prestigious annual exhibition of the Royal Academy. His genre pieces, seascapes and landscapes soon became very popular with the public. In addition to England, the painter also found his subjects in France in the 1870s, where he found inspiration in Brittany and Normandy for beach scenes with ships and fishermen. Travels through Spain and to the Middle East (Mecca, Syria) in the 1880s resulted in numerous exotic landscapes, figure pieces and street scenes. Finally, it is suspected that Beavis also traveled to Holland in the 1870s, in particular to Scheveningen, to record fishing life there in beach scenes with sturdy bombs.