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Richard Schmid (October 5, 1934) is an American realist artist.

Richard Schmid's maternal grandfather, Julian Oates, was an architectural sculptor. Richard's initial studies in landscape painting, figure drawing, and anatomy began at the age of twelve and continued into classical techniques under William H. Mosby at the American Academy of Art in Chicago.

In 1964 Schmid was the focus of the film The Secret Squint, which was awarded the C.I.N.E. Award. In 1990 Schmid as a finalist for The Hubbard Art Award for Excellence. In 2000, Schmid received the John Singer Sargent Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the American Society of Portrait Artists; and in 2001, Schmid produced a short documentary film, An American Portrait: The Senator and the Artist, in which Schmid interviewed then Senator James Jeffords of Vermont, while simultaneously painting his portrait.