Henry Richard Graves (1818–1882) was an English
portrait painter
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Graves was the second son of
Thomas Graves, 2nd Baron Graves
Thomas North Graves, 2nd Baron Graves (28 May 1775 – 7 February 1830) was a British peer and Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament.
Biography
Graves was the son of Admiral Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves. He succeeded hi ...
,
and worked as a
clerk
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for the
India Board
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in
London
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. From 1847 he was a portrait painter in London, exhibiting 71 works at the
Royal Academy
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Graves married Henrietta Wellesley in 1843 and had a large family.
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1818 births
1882 deaths
English portrait painters
19th-century English painters
English male painters
Younger sons of barons
19th-century English male artists