Joseph Ridgard Bagshawe

Joseph John Richard Bagshawe (1 July 1870 – 1 November 1909) was an English marine painter and member of the Staithes group. He was the grandson of the painter Clarkson Stanfield.

Early life Born in London, he came from the prominent Catholic Bagshawe family of Wormhill Hall, near Buxton, Derbyshire, and of Oakes-in-Norton, near Sheffield, 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. His father was first cousin of the Cambridge rower William Leonard Gill Bagshawe. 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.

Career He first visited Yorkshire in 1896, and in 1901 became founding secretary of the Staithes Art Club. Shortly afterwards, he settled at the Old Rectory in nearby Whitby,

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.

Spelling of name

His name is sometimes recorded as Joseph John Ridgard Bagshawe. His birth and death certificates both state his name is Joseph John Richard Bagshawe.

Ridgard was the maiden name of his grandmother and a middle name he gave to one of his sons.