RALPH, George Keith

1752 - c.1811

George Keith Ralph was born in September 1752, noted when he registered as a student at the Royal Academy Schools in 1775 at the age of ‘23 last Sept’. He exhibited some thirty-five works at the Royal Academy from 1778, including one of Mr King, master of the ceremonies at Bath (1790) and in 1794 he described himself as 'portrait painter to the Duke of Clarence'. He also exhibited at the Society of Artists of Great Britain and the British Institution. Although based in London, Ralph appears to have obtained considerable employment in the provinces, notably in the eastern counties. Several of his portraits were engraved including one of John Spink, alderman and banker of Bury St Edmund’s in 1782 with the original oil painting now in the town's Guildhall. His last exhibit ‘Portrait of a Lady Playing on the Lyre’ was in 1811 when living at 14 Tavistock Row, Covent Garden, London, but is not heard of after that.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 15 Orange Street, Leicester Fields
1778 224 Portrait of an Artist
1779 239 A Gentleman, three quarters
         240 ditto
1780 41 Perseus and Andromeda
         100 Portrait of a Gentleman
         145 Portrait of a Gentleman
from 63 Conduit Street, Hanover Square
1782 161 Portrait of a Child
         224 Portrait of a Gentleman
         227 A Head
from 8 Marylebone Street, Golden Square
1783 13 Portrait of a Lady and a Child
         24 Portrait of a Lady and a Gentleman
         235 Portrait of a Gentleman
         242 Portrait of a Lady
from 18 Bedford Street, Covent Garden
1784 33 Portrait of a Gentleman
         149 Portrait of a Young Lady
         376 Portrait of a Gentleman
         385 Portrait of a Lady
from 85 Corner of Chandos Street, 100 St Martins Lane
1787 151 Romeo and Juliet
         204 Portrait of an Indiaman, with a view of St. Helena
1788 117 Portrait of a Lady
         141 Children catching Butterflies
         194 Portrait of a Lady
1789 131 Portrait of an Artist
1790 101 Portrait of a Gentleman
         254 Portrait of a Gentleman
from 162 The Strand
1793 101 Portrait of a Young Gentleman
from 40 Great Madox Street
1794 184 Portrait of a Young Gentleman
         226 Portrait of an Artist
from 2 Carlisle Street, Soho
1795 192 Portrait of an Actress
from 22 Great Marlborough Street
1796 281 Portrait of an Actor
from 21 Bedford Row
1798 269 Musidora going to Bathe
         301 Quarry-men
from 22 Frith Street, Soho
1803 257 Lear, with the dead body of Cordelia

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Works by This Artist