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- Birth nameJohn Patrick Richardson
- John Richardson was born on February 6, 1924 in London, England, UK. He died in March 2019 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- He was awarded the Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Art. He is an art historian and author.
- He worked as an industrial designer, art critic, gallery executive, and auction house chief, and wrote for the New Yorker, New York Review of Books, and Vanity Fair. He was friends with several artists, including painters Georges Braque and Fernand Léger, composer Benjamin Britten, and poet W.H. Auden.
- He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (part of University College London), and served in the British army until he was diagnosed with rheumatic fever.
- His father, Wodehouse Richardson, was a quartermaster general during the Boer War, co-founded the Army & Navy department store chain, and was knighted by King Edward VII.
- He spent over 30 years writing a four-volume biography of Pablo Picasso.
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