Frederick Richard Pickersgill, artist and Royal Academician bearded Aerial view of London Airport

Aerial view of London Airport

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Frederick Richard Pickersgill, artist and Royal Academician bearded Aerial view of London AirportFrederick Richard Pickersgill, artist and Royal Academician, 1882. Pickersgill (1820 1900) was a painter of historical subjects as well as scenes from art and literature, contemporary life and the Bible. He became a Royal Academician in 1850, the year in which he painted the work generally regarded as his masterpiece, 'Samson Betrayed'. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science,