ABSTRACT
The Royal Academican, Sir William Blake Richmond (1842-1921) was one of the most implacable and outspoken opponents of Post-Impressionism. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art in Oxford (1879-83), was elected RA in 1895 and had written strongly against Degas’s Absinthe when it was shown in London in 1893. He was probably best known for his decorations of St Paul’s Cathedral.
