Richard Westall (1765–1836)
• Was an English painter.
• Westall was the more successful of two half-brothers (both sons of a Benjamin Westall) who both became painters.
• His younger half-brother was William Westall.
• Westall was a prolific book illustrator of both fiction and poetry, including the works of Sir Walter Scott, Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper and Thomas Gray.
• Byron, who greatly admired his work, stated that "the brush has beat the poetry".
