Frederick Charles Richards (Q64796)

Frederick Charles Richards (1878-1932) was born in Newport, Monmouthshire. He was the youngest son of Edwin Kemp Richards, a butcher. In 1909, he received a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, South Kensington where he learned etchings. His first exhibition was at the Royal Academy in 1911, and he studied for a diploma of the Royal College of Art and gained the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers. In 1920, he joined the College of Arts, before making a base in Egypt in 1927. Here he held exhibitions at Alexandria and also at Tehran and presented twenty-one of his oriental paintings to his hometown. In 1931, he returned to London, and wrote 'A Persian Journey' with forty-eight illustrations drawn during his nine months in Persia. He died 27 March 1932.