Henry Richard Graves Explained

Henry Richard Graves (1818–1882) was an English portrait painter.

Graves was the second son of Thomas Graves, 2nd Baron Graves,^[1] and worked as a clerk for the India Board in London.^[2] From 1847 he was a portrait painter in London, exhibiting 71 works at the Royal Academy.^[3]

Graves married Henrietta Wellesley in 1843 and had a large family.^{[4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dod's peerage, baronetage and knightage of Great Britain and Ireland for ..., including all the titled classes, Volume 1918, Part 1, Page 875. 10 April 2015.
2. Book: The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer. 1841 . W. Rushton and Company. 36.
3. Book: Frederic Boase. Modern English Biography: (Supplement v.1-3). 1912. 2027. Netherton and Worth.
4. Book: Henry Rumsey Forster. The Pocket Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland: With Genealogical and Historical Notices of the Families of the Nobility, the Archbishops and Bishops, a List of Titles of Courtesy, a Baronetage of the United Kingdom, Etc. 1852. D. Bogue. 420.
5. Web site: Armorial families; a complete peerage, baronetage, and knightage, and a directory of some gentlemen of coat-armour, and being the first attempt to show which arms in use at the moment are borne by legal authority (Part 1), Page 943. 10 April 2015.