His style is most affected, and the influence of the neo-Platonist terminology as well as of the works of the pseudo-Dionysius can be clearly detected. In the Paradis Dante has placed Richard de St Victor, whose books were much read by his contemporaries, among the greatest teachers of the Church. His writings seem to have come into favour again in the 16th and 17th centuries, six editions of his works having been printed between 1506 and 1650.
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RICHARDIA, a small genus of the nat. ord. Araceae, native in South Africa, to which the “arum lily” belongs. They are all greenhouse herbaceous plants of handsome appearance, with thick underground stems and large, more or less fleshy, long-stalked, arrow-shaped leaves and white or yellow flower spathes. They are readily propagated by division of the shoot, also by seed. Water should be given abundantly at all times, and the soil for potting should be rich and retentive. Potting is best effected in spring, and from the end of June to the end of August they should be plunged in a sunny spot out of doors. They will not withstand frost, and should be wintered in a warm greenhouse. They flower throughout the year.
RICHARDS, ALFRED BATE (1826–1876), English journalist,
was born in Worcestershire on the 17th of February 1820, and
was educated at Westminster School and Exeter College, Oxford.
After taking his degree in 1841 he published, anonymously,
Oxford Unmasked, a denunciation of abuses in the university.
Between 1845 and 1848 he wrote several dramas and some
poetry, and in the latter year became editor of a. weekly newspaper, the British Army Despatch. His temperament was
strongly Imperialist; he opposed Cobden and the Manchester
school of politicians, and in a volume entitled Britain Redeemed
and Canada Preserved predicted, thirty years before the event,
the construction of the Canadian Pacific railway. In 1855 he
was appointed the first editor of the London Daily Telegraph, and
through the medium of that journal strongly urged the formation
of volunteer rifle corps. The National and Constitutional
Defence Association was established in 1858 to carry out the
idea. Richards himself raised a regiment of a thousand working
men in London, becoming major and subsequently colonel of
the corps. In 187O he was appointed editor of the London
Morning Advertiser, and retained this position till his death
on the 12th of June 1876.
RICHARDS, HENRY BRINLEY (1819–1865), English
pianist and composer, was born at Carmarthen, and educated
at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where later he was
a professor. He took much interest in Welsh music and in
the Eisteddfod gatherings. He was a prolific composer, but is
perhaps principally remembered for writing the song “God
bless the Prince of Wales” (1862), which has been adopted
as an English national anthem.
RICHARDS, WILLIAM TROST (1833–1905), American
marine painter, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the
14th of November 1833. He was a pupil of Paul Weber in his
native city, and lived much in France, Italy and London. He
was a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
and of the American Water Colour Society. Examples of his
work a.re in the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Penn.; the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.,
and the Schaube Gallery, Hamburg. He died at Newport,
Rhode Island, on the 8th of November 1905. His daughter
Anna M. Richards (b. 1870), figure and landscape painter, was
a pupil of John La Farge and Benjamin Constant.
RICHARDSON, GEORGE, English 18th-century architect
and designer. The dates of birth and death of this distinguished
contemporary and rival of the brothers Adam are not ascertained,
but he is conjectured to have been born about 1736
and to have died in 1817. Richardson spent three years—from
1760 to 1763—travelling in Dalmatia and Istria, in the
south of France and in Italy. During that period he imbibed
the inspiration of a lifetime, and acquired the material for its
practical application. He soon began to show remarkable
skill in adapting classical ideals to the uses of his time, and in
1765 he won a premium offered by the Society of Arts for a
design of a street in the classical manner. Richardson’s work
is so closely allied to that of the brothers Adam that it is often
difficult to distinguish between them, and if it possessed less
freedom and variety, and bore to a smaller extent the impress
of an original mind, it was in the main exceedingly admirable
and satisfying. Richardson was an especially successful
designer of ceilings and chimney pieces. He published in 1776
a Book of Ceilings in the Style of the Antique Grotesque. Many
of its drawings are of exquisite taste. Nor is his fireplace
work, as represented by his Collection of Chimneypieces Ornamented
in the Style of the Etruscan, Greek and Roman Architecture
(1781), less attractive. Richardson’s chimney pieces are
still to be found in considerable numbers in town and country
houses. They are mostly of marble, but examples in wood
are not uncommon. He made extensive use of coloured
marbles, and the effect is constantly that of the sumptuous
balancing the austere. Like the Adams, Richardson often
worked with composition enrichment’s, and his New Designs
in Architecture (1792) contains many drawings of interior
friezes and columns to be executed either in this medium or
painted to suit the wall hangings. His versatility, was considerable,
as the titles of his works, a dozen in number, suggest.
For many years he exhibited at the Royal Academy as well
as in the Galleries of the Society of Arts. Why such a man
should have fallen into penury in his old age we have no means
of ascertaining, but we know that his necessities were relieved
by Nollekens.
His principal works in addition to those already mentioned were, in chronological order: Aedes Pembrochianae (1774); Iconology (2 vols.), with plates by Bartolozzi and other engravers (1778–1779); New Designs in Architecture (1792); Original Designs for Country Seats or Villas (1795); The New Vitruvius Britannicus, a sequel to Colin Campbell’s Vitrivius Britannicus, 2 vols. (1802); Ornaments in the Grecian, Roman and Etruscan Tastes (1816). He also published volumes dealing with vases and tripods, antique friezes and other architectural and decorative details.
RICHARDSON, HENRY HOBSON (1838–1886), American architect, was born in the parish of St James, Louisiana, on the 29th of September 1838, of a rich family, his mother being a granddaughter of the famous Dr Priestley, the English dissenting refugee and man of science. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1859, and going immediately to Paris to study architecture, entered the École des Beaux-Arts. The Civil War, which broke out in the United States while he was in the school, prevented his return to Louisiana, and stripped his family of their possessions, so that Richardson provided for his own support by working in the offices of practising architects in Paris, till the fall of 1865. Coming back, he established himself in New York, where he soon made his way into practice as an architect. In 1878 he moved to Boston, where he passed the remaining years of his life, designing there most of the work that made his reputation. He had married in 1867 Miss Julia Gorham Hayden of Boston; he died on the 27th of April 1886, not yet forty-eight years old.
Richardson’s career was short, and the number of his works was small indeed compared with the attention they attracted and the influence he left behind him. The most important and characteristic are: Trinity church and the so-called Brattle Square church, in Boston; the alterations in the State Capitol at Albany; the county buildings at Pittsburg; town halls at Albany, Springfield and North Easton; town libraries at Woburn, North Easton, Quincy, Burlington and Malden; Sever Hall and Austin Hall at Harvard University; the Chamber of Commerce at Cincinnati. Trinity church, the Pittsburg buildings and the Capitol at Albany were works of great importance, which have had a strong influence on men
