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Alfred Thompson Bricher
Rocky Coast, Narragansett Bay

Name: Rocky Coast, Narragansett Bay
Brand: Alfred Thompson Bricher
Rating: 5 (12 reviews)

$48,000List Price

About the Item

A fine coastal seascape of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, by American artist Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837-1908). Bricher was a significant member of the second generation of Hudson River School landscape painters and was considered to be one of the last of the relevant American Luminists. Unlike his contemporaries who sketched and painted notable mountainous spots like the Adirondacks, the Catskills, the White Mountains, Lake George, and Lake Champlain, Bricher devoted his attention instead to painting the seashore and ocean. He painted views of Shinnecock, Narragansett, Chatham, Cape Cod, Southampton and of other various places along the Massachusetts and Maine coastlines. As a result, he is best known for his marine paintings, such as the present work, that depict New England shorelines and showcase the dynamic forces of the sea. He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and became a businessman in Boston who, in his leisure hours, studied at the Lowell Institute in Boston and attended an academy in Newburyport, Massachusetts. By 1858 he became a professional artist and in the 1860s, he followed his contemporaries to the popular vistas of the White Mountains. There, particularly at North Conway, he studied and painted with Albert Bierstadt, William Morris Hunt, Gabriella Eddy, and Benjamin Champney. His paintings were exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum, the Boston Art Club, the National Academy of Design, the Brooklyn Art Association, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Oil on canvas, signed lower left, titled “Rocky Coast, Narragansett Bay” on a Valley Fine Art (CO) Exhibition label on verso, and housed in a fine molded giltwood frame. Dimensions: 22 in H x 32 in W, actual; 34 in H x 44 in , framed.

Creator:
Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837-1908, American)
Dimensions:
Height: 34 in (86.36 cm)Width: 44 in (111.76 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Oil
Movement Style:
American Realist
Period:
19th Century
Condition:
Very good conserved condition, with professional conservation details on verso. Please contact us directly for a full condition report before purchasing.
Gallery Location:
Milford, NH
Reference Number:
Seller: 83231stDibs: LU93138749672

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Alfred Thompson Bricher

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. In 1890 he built a home in New Dorp, Staten Island, New York where he lived until his death in 1908.

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