Alfred Thompson Bricher Art
American, 1837-1908
Alfred T. Bricher (1837-1908) Marine and landscape painter Alfred Thompson Bricher is known principally for his oil and watercolor paintings of the New England coastline. He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1837, and in 1840 relocated with his family to Newburyport, Massachusetts. Bricher moved to Boston in 1851 to seek employment, and worked as a clerk at a mercantile house while painting part-time.
As an artist, Bricher was largely self-taught, but may have studied in Newburyport and at the Lowell Institute in Boston. In 1858 he began painting full-time and established a studio in Newburyport. That year he made the first of many sketching trips–to Mt. Desert Island in Maine with Charles Temple Dix and William S. Haseltine–which, throughout his career, would take him to: Long Island, along the Hudson River, to Lake George and into the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains of New York; to New Jersey; throughout Massachusetts; to Conway, the White Mountains, and elsewhere in New Hampshire; and along the coast of Maine.
In 1859 Bricher opened a studio in Boston, though he continued to visit and work in and around Newburyport as well. In June of 1866 he made a sketching trip along the Mississippi River, and into Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. During the 1860s, Bricher collaborated with L. Prang and Company to produce chromolithographs of his paintings.
One of the last great Luminist artists, Bricher was described by fellow painter William S. Barrett as “not a studio painter,” but a “lover of true nature.” In 1868, Bricher and his bride, Susan Wildes of Boston moved to New York City. In 1871 the artist began sketching along the coast of Rhode Island. Around 1874 he made his first trip to Grand Manan Island in New Brunswick, Canada. Shortly after this the artist probably traveled to England, for in 1876-77 he began exhibiting English subjects.
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Artist: Alfred Thompson Bricher
"Noon at Point Judith" Rhode Island 1877
By Alfred Thompson Bricher
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Noon at Point Judith, Rhode Island 1877
by Alfred T. Bricher (1837-1908)
Medium Oil
Medium Detail Oil on canvas
Dimensions 25 x 50 inches; Framed: 40 x 65 inches
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Moonlight Seascape
By Alfred Thompson Bricher
Located in New York, NY
Monogrammed lower left: ATBRICHER
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"Morning Sunlight, Narragansett Bay"
By Alfred Thompson Bricher
Located in Jacksonville, FL
ALFRED THOMPSON BRICHER
New York/New Hampshire, 1837-1908
"Morning Sunlight, Narragansett Bay".
Signed lower left "A.T. Bricher 1872". Titled on gallery label verso.
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"Summer at the Seashore" Oil on canvas, circa 1880
By Alfred Thompson Bricher
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Alfred Thompson Bricher
(American, 1837-1908)
Summer at the Seashore
Oil on canvas
Signed Bricher l.r., circa 1880
Dimensions
18 x 39 in (45.7 x 99.1 cm)
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Oil
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By Alfred Thompson Bricher
Located in New York, NY
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By Alfred Thompson Bricher
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837-1908)
Rolling Waves
signed with conjoined initials 'ATBricher:' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 1/8 x 38 1/8 in. (51.1 x 96.8 cm.)
Alfred Thompson Brich...
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19th Century Alfred Thompson Bricher Art
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Oil
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Located in Warren, NJ
Original watercolor on paper
signed and dated 1874 to lower left
Provenance
purchased from Kennedy Galleries, NY
The Collection of Bruce and Barbara Sullivan, Birmingham, Alabama
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1870s Alfred Thompson Bricher Art
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“Lake George” by Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837–1908) – Signed. Dated 1867
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