Career
The works of Robert and Richard Dighton are regarded as predecessors of the Vanity Fair style of the late nineteenth century. His series of City and West End portraits was started in 1817, and he published more than one hundred etchings during the next decade. From 1828 on he produced no further etchings and settled and worked in Cheltenham and Worcester where he spent the next twenty years, thereafter returning to London.
He concentrated firstly on watercolour portraits and after 1835 on lithographic portraits.
Richard Dighton died of an "enlarged prostate and Bright"s disease" at 3 Elm Grove, Hammersmith on 13 April 1880 aged 84.
