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This picture shows him as an accomplished painter of landscapes, and was considered the best landscape in the 1854 Royal Academy exhibition. In the 1850s, with his several responsibilities as art teacher, curator, and administrator, he sought more peaceful refuge during the summer months with his wife and children at their home in the country, in Abinger, Kent.  Nearby, in the adjacent county of Surrey close to where his father was living, he painted this view.  It was much admired by critics for its visual truth: 'he renders truly what is before him, no common merit that he is not attempting to improve on nature'.  Redgrave was able to relate a great deal of minute detail without, as sometimes happened in Pre-Raphaelite works, the painting being overwhelmed by it.","briefDescription":"'An Old English Homestead', oil on canvas by Richard Redgrave, Britain; signed and dated 1854.\r\n","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<i>Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860</i>, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 247-48"},{"reference":{"text":"Evans, Mark et al. <i>Vikutoria & Arubāto Bijutsukan-zō : eikoku romanshugi kaigaten = The Romantic tradition in British painting, 1800-1950 : masterpieces from the Victoria and Albert Museum</i>. 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