Richard Jack
(1866–)
(–1952)
Richard Jack
1866–1952
Richard Jack (1866–1952) was an impressionist painter of portraits, figure subjects, interiors, and landscapes. Born in Sunderland, County Durham, England, in 1866, he attended and studied art at the York School of Art and the South Kensington Art School. Jack also won a National Scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1886. A traveling scholarship took him to Paris two years later, where he worked at Académie Julian and Atelier Colarossi, his teachers included Adolphe Bouguereau. His portrait subjects included King Edward VII, King George V, and King Alphonso of Spain.
Upon returning to London in the early 1890s, he worked at The Idler and contributed as a black-and-white artist for Cassell’s Magazine. Notably, he earned recognition with a silver medal at the 1900 Paris International Exhibition and another at the 1914 Carnegie International in Pittsburgh.
Jack was a fellow of the Royal Institute of Painters and the Royal Society of British Artists. He took on the mission of documenting the 2nd Battle of Ypres in 1915 on commission as a war artist for Canada.