Richard Samuel Chattock

Richard Samuel Chattock JP RBSA (23 August 1825 – 30 January 1906) was an English printmaker, painter and etcher.

However, in the late 1850s he began following his interest in art, exhibiting his work in the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.

In 1872, he completed his most famous works, sixteen etchings that depict the industrial landscape of the Black Country considered an unusual choice for artists.

[5] While these descriptions tell of the "intense desolation"[5] of the Black Country, due to an industry that "ransacked [its] depths",[5] Chattock is often focused on what he calls "single picturesqueness, if not beauty.

[4] He died at St Vincent's Hall, Clifton, Bristol, age 81.