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| William Trost Richards
American 1833 -1905
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| Born: |
Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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| Died: |
Newport Rhode Island
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| Active: |
Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Europe 1853-1856, 1866-1867
Germantown Pennsylvania
Newport Rhode Island 1870s-1905
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| Addresses: |
Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Newport Rhode Island from 1890
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| Studied: |
Philadelphia 1850
Florence 1853-1856
Rome 1853-1856
Paris 1853-1856
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| Instructors: |
Paul Weber 1850
William Stanley Haseltine
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| Exhibited: |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1852-1905
National Academy of Design 1858-1905
Brooklyn Art Association 1863-1885
Paris Salon 1873
Centennial Exhibition 1876 Philadelphia
Boston Art Club 1878, 1882-1886, 1898
Paris Exposition 1889
Royal Academy, London
Art Institute of Chicago
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| Examples of Work: |
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York City
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Newark Museum, New Jersey
University of Washington, Seattle
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| Specialty: |
Painter
Instructor
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| Style/School: |
Hudson River School
Luminism
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| Subjects Known For: |
Coastal
Landscapes
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| Memberships: |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1853
Association of Advancement Truth in Art 1868
Royal Academy of Arts
National Academy of Design Honorary 1862; NA 1857
American Watercolor Society
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(1833-1905) Richards was born in Philadelphia, the son of Quaker parents. His formal academic education ended in 1847 following his father's death, when he worked as a designer of chandeliers and gas fixtures to help support his ...
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William Trost Richards combined in his works the grandeur, atmosphere and light of the American painter, the interest in the minutiae of nature of the pre-raphaelites, and the precision and technique of the Dusseldorf School. He was a landscape artist for much of his life and is most remembered f...
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William T. Richards was forced at the young age of 13 to drop out of school to help financially support his family. He worked as a design illustrator for a gas lamp company. However, Richards was able to return to his studie...
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Moving between landscapes and seascapes, oils and watercolors, rigorous precision and luminous fluidity, William Trost Richards embraced and mastered each phase of nineteenth-century painting. His extraordinary career began ...
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