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William Trost Richards American Watercolor Atlantic City New Jersey Coast Beach Sunset Signed Date 18751875
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A fine and important painting by the celebrated American Hudson River School painter William Trost Richards (1833-1905), the painting depicting the coastline at sunset Atlantic City, NJ, signed and dated 1875.
This watercolor is fresh to the market from a private American collection, in the same family hands since the 1920's and housed in the original bronzed frame, condition is all original, we at Bloomsbury Fine Art had the work professionally remounted in archival acid free materials and UV glass. Condition is excellent.
Framed: 20.25" tall x 30.25" wide x 1" deep
At sight: 10.5" tall x 20.5" wide
William Trost Richards was born in Philadelphia and began to draw at a young age. At thirteen he was forced to leave school to support his family and found a job designing ornamental metal fixtures. He continued to study art, eventually taking classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and exhibiting his first work there in 1852.
In 1855 he made the first of several trips to Europe to look at art. An admirer of the great American landscape artists of his day, Frederic Edwin Church and John F. Kensett, Richards was also interested in European interpretations of landscape. During his many trips, he visited American artists working abroad. Richards made his home in Philadelphia and spent summers at Atlantic City and Cape May, New Jersey. In 1890 he settled in the seaside town of Newport, Rhode Island.
Rocky coasts, beaches, and rolling waves were the subjects that established Richards' reputation as a painter in the nineteenth century. A draftsman and landscape painter, Richards initially depicted woodland scenes but eventually specialized in seascapes. His work, done in oil and later in watercolor, was highly regarded for its precise detail, and, at the same time, the spaciousness of his scenes.
- Creator:William Trost Richards (1833 - 1905, American)
- Creation Year:1875
- Dimensions:Height: 20.25 in (51.44 cm)Width: 30.25 in (76.84 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Condition:Excellent Fresh to the market condition.
- Gallery Location:Portland, OR
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William Trost Richards
William Trost Richards was born in Philadelphia on November 14, 1833. He studied in Philadelphia with Paul Weber in 1850 and possibly at the PAFA, CA, 1852, before studying in Florence, Rome and Paris from 1853–56. Richards worked as an illustrator and as a designer of ornamental light fixtures for a Philadelphia firm that produced gas lamps while studying privately the techniques of painting with German taught landscape-portrait painter Paul Weber (1823–1916). In 1852, he exhibited his first landscapes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and in 1853 some of his romantic drawings appeared in the portfolio, The Landscape Feeling of American Poets. By 1855, Richards and marine-landscape painter William Stanley Hasseltine (1835–1900) sailed for Dusseldorf, where Richards studied with Leutze and Albert Bierstadt, the latter of whom inspired Richards. After painting landscapes in oil in France and Italy, Richards married and returned to Germantown. Enthused by the works of Frederick Edwin Church and John Kensett by 1856, it was Church's use of light and atmosphere that Richards began to imitate and two years later he was painting outdoors. In 1866, Richards traveled to England and his focus turned from landscapes to marine painting. A year later, a storm at sea caught the painter's attention, and he began to study the structure of waves and how weather affects the sea and shore. He died in Newport, Rhode Island, on November 9, 1905.
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