Richard Dighton (1795 - 1880)

Richard Dighton

Richard Dighton was a British portrait painter and caricaturist.

He studied drawing under his father, the famous caricaturist Robert Dighton (1752-1814), and was also the brother of artists Denis Dighton and Robert Dighton, Jr. Richard Dighton was best known for his many profile portraits of characters from the City and West End. He began his extensive series in 1817 and over the next ten years published over one hundred etchings. The people portrayed by Dighton are amusingly drawn and finely hand-colored, the drawings cartoonishly depicting various members of British society.

Deighton's sons Richard Jr. and Joshua were also portrait painters.