Thomas Richmond

Thomas Richmond (1802–1874) was a British portrait painter, known for his idealised pictures in the so-called keepsake style.

[1] Richmond's paintings are close in style to his father's work, but distinguished by the characteristic use of dark stippling in the background.

When John Ruskin's father commissioned Richmond to paint his daughter-in-law Effie Gray, Effie wrote of the finished work to her mother: Richmond and his brother George had met Ruskin during his trip to Rome in 1840-1.

He wrote to his son that Thomas was inferior as an artist to his brother: "Tom I regret to say cannot hold a candle to George - It is second rate or lower".

[2] Richmond died in 1874 at Windermere, where he had purchased an estate, but was buried in Brompton cemetery, London.