Featured 19th Century Painter: ALFRED THOMPSON BRICHER
February 08, 2021 14:49
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ALFRED THOMPSON BRICHER (AMERICAN, 1837 â 1908) ( aka Alfred Thompson Bricher, ATBricher ) SEASCAPE Watercolor, 5 x 12.25 inches / Signed lower right
Bedford Fine Art Gallery
Artist Alfred Thompson Bricher is best known for his maritime water colors and is considered to be one of the 19th centuryâs greatest maritime painters. Employed as a businessman in Boston, he took art classes at the Lowell Institute. Although he studied under famous Hudson River School artist Albert Bierstadt, he was primarily a self-taught Luministâthe study of how light is reflected, refracted and absorbed. In 1868 Alfred Thompson Bricher moved to New York at which time he switched from oils to water colors. One observer of a Bricher painting stated that âhe makes water sparkle like diamonds in a silver settingâ. He painted at Shinnecock,
Photo: Library of Congress. No known restrictions on publication. The actual date of the painting isn’t given in the archives but Alfred Thompson Bricher, the artist who painted the sailboat on Shinnecock Bay at sunset, lived from 1837 to 1908. The print in the Library of Congress says the work was published in 1887 by L. Prang & Company so we can reasonably assume the painting was produced sometimes before that. The Smithsonian American Art Museum says that Bricher painted seascapes up and down the Atlantic coast in his career. He is often associated with the Hudson River School.