George Richmond was an English painter and portraitist. The son of Thomas Richmond, a miniature-painter, and the father of the painter William Blake Richmond ARA, Richmond was from a family line of artists. Possibly through his father, when Richmond was sixteen he met William Blake at the house of John Linnell at Highgate.

Along with fellow young artists Samuel Palmer, Edward Calvert, Frederick Tatham and others he formed the Blake-influenced group known as "The Ancients.” Turning to portrait painting like his father as a steady source of income, Richmond's success was due to his delicate and skilful sketch-like approach which rendered the sitter's image as lifelike as something two dimensional could be. This deft approach to drawing was also applied to love of drawing nature and trees whether in the parks around London, Shoreham, Rome or later in Wiltshire.