Thomas Miles Richardson

After five years of cabinet-making, he became a teacher, and from 1806 to 1813 filled the post which his father had held at the grammar school.

Then he decided to adopt an artistic career, and soon acquired a reputation as a painter of landscape.

He worked chiefly in watercolour, and found most of his subjects in the scenery of the Borders and the Scottish Highlands, though in later life he went as far afield as Italy and Switzerland.

Richardson became well known as a contributor to London exhibitions from 1818, when he sent his first picture to the Royal Academy, and was elected a member of the New Watercolour Society.

His work was represented in public galleries at South Kensington, at Dublin, and at Liverpool.