Makers, Periods & Styles Library

Richard & Co started life in Paris in 1848 under a different name but then added a London branch at 24 Cannon Street in 1867 which became Richard & Co. They were mainly carriage clock makers, producing clocks in different English and French styles for the respective markets. The London business lasted until 1881...

Robert (Mouseman) Thompson ( 1876 – 1955) was an English furniture maker based in Kilburn, North Yorkshire. He established a business making Yorkshire oak furniture around 1919 after teaching himself to use traditional tools and experimented with ideas based on 17th century English styles. His claim to fame is...

Robert Gavin R.S.A. (1827 – 1883) was a Scottish painter. He trained under Thomas Duncan at the School of Design in Edinburgh and went on to paint a large number of rustic and family subjects, mainly landscapes with figures of children. Paintings such as the ‘Reaping Girl’ and ‘Phoebe Mayflower’ became so...

Robert Gillow (1704–1772) was the founder of Gillows of Lancaster, an English furniture manufacturer. Robert Gillow started out as a ship’s carpenter and sailed to the West Indies. He discovered mahogany in Jamaica and in 1720, brought samples back to Lancaster. This could have been the first mahogany ever...

Robert Lewis Reid (1862- 1929) was an American impressionist painter and mural painter. He did his art training under Otto Grundmann at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts and later became an instructor there. He moved to study at the Art Students League in New York City in 1884, and...