Richard Ansdell was an English painter who specialised in oil paintings of animal and sporting subjects. He first exhibited at the Liverpool Academy in 1835, reaching its presidency in 1845, and resigning in 1852 in protest over an award of the £50 prize to William Holman Hunt for the then controversial "Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus". In 1841, he married Maria Romer. Wikipedia
Most of the paintings reproduced on this webpage were copied and sent to us by her, including this portrait of her great-great-grandfather, Richard Ansdell, above. www.gis.net/~shepdog/BC_Museum/Permanent/Ansdell.html
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