Tempera on oak
Tate Collection
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/george-richmond-447" aria-label="More by George Richmond" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">George Richmond</a>
Abel Shepherd
Purchased 1948
Abel
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
agriculture and fishing
animals: mammals
astronomy
bat
Bible: Old Testament
herdsman / herdswoman
herdsman / herdswoman, shepherd / shepherdess
landscape
male
man
moon
night
nudes
people
reclining
religion and belief
sheep
sleeping
times of the day
wooded
work and occupations
<p>Richmond was the youngest of Blake’s followers known as the ‘Ancients’. He first met Blake in 1824. Later that year he became a student at the Royal Academy. This was his first exhibited picture, shown at the Academy in 1825. It shows Abel, the son of Adam and Eve, who was described in Genesis as ‘a keeper of sheep’.</p><p>Richmond had asked Blake’s advice about using tempera. Blake copied out for him a passage from a modern edition of a fourteenth-century treatise on art by Cennino Cennini (reproduced on the panel to the left). Richmond’s choice of medium and support here reflects this advice.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting tempera oak
15 October 2001 – 7 July 2002
2002-07-07
15 October 2001 – 7 July 2002
2002-07-07
2001-10-15
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-10-15
William Blake and His Followers
Collection based display
24 March 2003 – 17 November 2003
2003-11-17
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-03-24
Blake and Illustration
Collection based display
24 November 2003 – 22 November 2004
2004-11-22
10 November 2003
2003-11-10
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-11-24
William Blake the Painter at Work
Collection based display
21 October 2005 – 28 May 2006
2006-05-28
21 October 2005 – 22 January 2006
2006-01-22
2005-10-21
British Museum (London, UK)
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
7 March 2006 – 28 May 2006
2006-05-28
2006-03-07
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)
http://www.metmuseum.org
2005-10-21
Samuel Palmer, 1805-1881; Vison and Landscape
Loan-out
13 February 2009 – 30 October 2010
2010-10-30
13 February 2009 – 30 October 2010
2010-10-30
2009-02-13
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-02-13
Visionary Landscapes
Collection based display
1 November 2011 – 21 October 2012
2012-10-21
3 July 2012 – 21 October 2012
2012-10-21
2012-07-03
Fundació “la Caixa” (Madrid, Spain)
2011-11-01
Blake Exhibition
Loan-out
13 May 2013 – 6 October 2013
2013-10-06
13 May 2013 – 6 October 2013
2013-10-06
2013-05-13
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-05-13
Landscape in Blake
Collection based display
4 December 2014 – 1 March 2015
2015-03-01
4 December 2014 – 1 March 2015
2015-03-01
2014-12-04
Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, UK)
http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/
2014-12-04
William Blake, Apprentice and Master
Loan-out
12 August 2019 – 17 March 2020
2020-03-17
12 August 2019
2019-08-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2019-08-12
Blake Followers
Collection based display
Abel the Shepherd
support: 229 × 305 mm
frame: 334 × 406 × 40 mm
Purchased 1948
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<span class="text14">Richmond was the youngest of Blake’s followers      known as <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/t/the-ancients" title="Glossary definition for 'The Ancients'"><span>the ‘Ancients</span></a>’. He </span><span class="text0">
first      met Blake in 1824. Later that year he became a student at the Royal      Academy. </span><span class="text15">This was his first exhibited picture,      shown</span><span class="text0"> </span><span class="text14">at the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/academy" title="Glossary definition for 'Academy'"><span>Academy</span></a>      in 1825. It shows Abel</span><span class="text0">,  the son of Adam and      Eve, who was described in Genesis as ‘a keeper  of sheep’. </span>
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<span class="text0">Richmond had asked Blake’s advice  about using      <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/t/tempera" title="Glossary definition for 'Tempera'"><span>tempera</span></a>. Blake copied out  </span><span class="text16">for him a passage      from a modern edition</span><span class="text0">
of a fourteenth-century      treatise on art  </span><span class="text15">by Cennino Cennini (reproduced      on the </span><span class="text14">panel to the left). Richmond’s </span><span class="text0">choice  of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/medium" title="Glossary definition for 'Medium'"><span>medium</span></a> and support here reflects  this advice. </span>
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Abel actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults agriculture and fishing animals: mammals astronomy bat Bible: Old Testament herdsman / herdswoman herdsman / herdswoman, shepherd / shepherdess landscape male man moon night nudes people reclining religion and belief sheep sleeping times of the day wooded work and occupations