Richard Dey de Ribcowsky

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• New aliases and biographical details were added (including alternate name Dimitrio de Ribcowsky), wartime service, specific travel events, a later-life disability note, and a death event. These expand the biographical record beyond the prior revision.

Add: A passenger manifest records his arrival in New York from Trinidad that July under the name Dimitrio de Ribcowsky. Add: During the First World War he served as secretary of the Bulgarian Relief Committee headquartered in New York. Add: Following a reported automobile accident in 1931 de Ribcowsky used a wheelchair. Add: In July 1936 he was visiting the home of Charles and Mrs Gurney in Yankton South Dakota where he planned to paint a portrait of D B Gurney He was found dead in his hotel room in Santa Monica California. Add: In 1930 he discussed painting Florida scenery and his interest in the interplay of colour light and reflection. Add: In a 1931 interview he explained that he painted seascapes from memory studying the changing appearance of the water and sky before reproducing the scene later in his studio.

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