Career
He worked at first as a designer. He was elected an Associate in 1840 and an Academician in 1851 (retired, 1882). His Gulliver on the Farmers Table (1837) made his reputation as a painter.
Redgrave was an assiduous painter of landscape and genre; his best pictures being Country Cousins (1848), The Return of Olivia (1848), The Sempstress (1844) and Well Spring in the Forest (1865).
He began in 1847 a connection with the Government School of Design, as botanical lecturer and teacher, he became head-master in 1848, and art superintendent in 1852. He was inspector-general for art at the Science and Art Department in 1857, and art director of the South Kensington Museum. He was greatly instrumental in the establishment of this institution, and he claimed the credit of having secured the Sheepshanks and Ellison gifts for the nation. Redgrave received the cross of the Legion of Honour after serving on the executive committee of the British section of the Paris Exhibition of 1855.
He was surveyor of crown pictures from 1856–1880, during which he produced a 34 volume catalogue detailing the pictures at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, Hampton Court, and other royal residences.
Redgrave and his brother Samuel were the authors of A Century of Painters of the English School, published in 1866, he also wrote also An Elementary Manual of Colour, 1853.
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