Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jones, Richard (1767-1840)

by Lionel Henry Cust

JONES, RICHARD (1767–1840), animal painter, born in 1767, was a native of Reading, and obtained some repute as a painter of sporting subjects. He exhibited some animal pieces and portraits at the Royal Academy in 1818, 1819, and 1820. Four sporting subjects by him were engraved in mezzotint by Charles Turner for Ackermann's ‘Repository.’ Jones died in 1840.

[Graves's Dict. of Artists, 1760–1880.]

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