Hi
My email didn't come about these two posts.
Yes, we started with Richard's prowess as an artist from various art sources on the area. the main interest was more details on local artists. I expected it to lead to more artistic finds, but we ended up going half way round the world - osms and r he did!
Yes, the main well known picture is the Wordsworth portrait which figures in many books. Apparently he visited Wordsworth over here.
He was associated with Carlisle Academy and exhibited at the Royal Academy but the evidence we have is as a merchant.
We have loads of family baptism and marriage entries and between us have quite detailed family information.
The main holes are in the foreign research. Most information has come form comments in books on Maua and also literary figures over here and their letters.
I think that's why he doesn't seem such a character in business. I think he actually was, but the records aren't there.
Yes, he was much younger than his older brothers - twenty years? from memory. They appear to have had a large hand in bringing him up. William, and older brother was in Portugal as a wine merchant and Richard went there first. William died there, also Isaac, though I think he may have been a cousin or uncle. We've not found births and marriages in Portugal or Brazil though we have burial records for William and Isaac.
Thank you for the reference.
I have looked before with no results but I can't get it to let me view the reference at the moment.
Best wishes
Emms
