Background
Born in London, he came from a prominent Catholic family, the second son of County Court Judge William Henry Gunning Bagshawe KC (1825–1901) and his wife Harriet Teresa, daughter of the leading marine painter Clarkson Frederick Stanfield.
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Joseph Bagshawe
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Royal College of Artist
Career
Educated firstly at Beaumont College & Saint Augustine"s, Ramsgate, he went on to study art under Hubert Vos at the Royal College of Art at South Kensington in London and, under Edmond van Hove in Bruges. He first visited Yorkshire in 1896, and in 1901 became founding secretary of the Staithes Art Club. Bagshawe regularly went out to sea with the fishermen, eventually deciding to buy a small yacht which he took out for trips that lasted as long as a fortnight.
He also travelled to the coasts of the Netherlands, Normandy, Finland and the West Coast of Ireland to paint.
Working in both oils and watercolours, he exhibited at the Glasgow Institute, the Walker Gallery Liverpool, Manchester City Art Gallery, the Royal Academy (from 1897), the Royal Society of British Artists (elected a member in 1904) and the Royal Institute of Painters in Oils. Joseph Ridgard Bagshawe died at the age of thirty-nine as a result of diabetes.
Examples of his work can be found in the Pannet Art Gallery, Whitby and the Victoria and Albert Museum. His name is frequently misspelled as Joseph Richard Bagshawe in art galleries.
