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William Trost Richards Paintings

American, 1833-1905

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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Artist: William Trost Richards
Woodland Interior
Woodland Interior

Woodland Interior

By William Trost Richards

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

Woodland Interior Oil on canvas 21 7/8 x 14 3/4 inches (55.6 x 37.5 cm) Framed dimensions: 32 7/8 x 26 inches Signed lower left: Wm. T. Richards Provenance The artist; James Bayard ...

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Mid-19th Century Pre-Raphaelite William Trost Richards Paintings

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Newport Oil Painting on Panel, Signed, 19th Century Landscape Art
Newport Oil Painting on Panel, Signed, 19th Century Landscape Art

Newport Oil Painting on Panel, Signed, 19th Century Landscape Art

By William Trost Richards

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

Newport Oil on panel 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (14 x 23.5 cm) Framed dimensions: 10 3/8 x 14 1/8 inches Signed lower left: WTR Provenance Estate of the artist; Anna Richards Brewster, t...

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Late 19th Century Hudson River School William Trost Richards Paintings

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After a South Eastern, Newport Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Framed, 6x9
After a South Eastern, Newport Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Framed, 6x9

After a South Eastern, Newport Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Framed, 6x9

By William Trost Richards

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

After a South Eastern, Newport Oil on board, 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm) Signed lower left: WT. Richards. Provenance The artist; Gift of the artist to William T. Brewster (the art...

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Late 19th Century Hudson River School William Trost Richards Paintings

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