Richard Livesay

[2] Engaged by West to copy pictures at Windsor, Livesay moved there about 1790, and gave lessons in drawing to some of the royal children.

On an address card which he issued at that time he described himself as "Portrait, Landscape, and Marine Painter, Drawing-Master to the Royal Academy, Portsmouth, 61 Hanover Street, Portsea.

[2] In the wartime years, Livesay painted English warships and their French prizes, and in 1800 he published a set of four plates of the reviews of the Isle of Wight volunteers, aquatinted by John Wells.

He painted a large picture of the review of the Hertfordshire volunteers by the king in Hatfield Park, 13 June 1800, which was engraved by J. C. Stadler, and once hung in Lord Salisbury's town house, 20 Arlington Street.

[2] Livesay was an exhibitor at the Royal Academy of portraits and domestic subjects up to 1821; his Genius and Industry, Cottage Spinsters, and Young Foresters were mezzotinted by George Dawe and John Murphy, and his portraits of Queen Charlotte, Dr. Willis, George Byng, M.P., Dr. Fothergill, Sir Thomas Louis, bart., and others, were engraved.