Frederick Richard Pickersgill, artist and Royal Academician bearded The hall is crowded with

The hall is crowded with dignitaries in wigs and ceremonial costume

In the distance a mock

Scene showing figures outside marquees

North view (above) and south view (below)

and Jim Clark

Frederick Richard Pickersgill, artist and Royal Academician bearded The hall is crowded withFrederick Richard Pickersgill, artist and Royal Academician, 1882. Pickersgill (1820 1900) was a painter of historical subjects as well as scenes from art and literature, contemporary life and the Bible. He became a Royal Academician in 1850, the year in which he painted the work generally regarded as his masterpiece, 'Samson Betrayed'. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science,