[1] Richmond attended Miss Bell's Young Ladies' College in Nelson and her interest in art was encouraged by her father who passed on his love of drawing and painting to her.

In the early 1880s she returned to New Zealand to keep house for her father before being appointed the art mistress at the newly opened Nelson College for Girls in 1883.

Richmond exhibited with the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts from 1885 and then travelled to Europe and returning and forth and continuing to study and paint seriously.

[4] Richmond and Hodgkins remained close partners and rented a studio together in Bowen Street, Wellington where they also took on private pupils.

Richmond keep the studio on after Hodgkins returned to Europe in 1906 and continued to develop her reputation as an art teacher.