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Looking Out to Sea Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Looking Out to Sea

On the Meadows of Old Newburyport Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

On the Meadows of Old Newburyport

Cloudy Day Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Cloudy Day

Hazy Coast Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Hazy Coast

A Quiet Day near Manchester Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

A Quiet Day near Manchester

Castle Rock. Marblehead Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Castle Rock. Marblehead

Castle Rock. Nahant. Massachusetts Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Castle Rock. Nahant. Massachusetts

Farm in Southampton.Long Island Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Farm in Southampton.Long Island

Summertime Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Summertime

Lake George Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Lake George

West Island. Seaconnett Point. Rhode Island. A Sunny day on the Coast Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

West Island. Seaconnett Point. Rhode Island. A Sunny day on the Coast

Falls Near Shokan. New York Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Falls Near Shokan. New York

Schooner High and Dry Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Schooner High and Dry

Grand Manaan Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Grand Manaan

Beach at Little Boar's Head. New Hampshire Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Beach at Little Boar's Head. New Hampshire

Coastal scene Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Coastal scene

Breaking Waves Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Breaking Waves

Rocky Coast with Breaking Wave Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Rocky Coast with Breaking Wave

A Summer Day at the Seashore New England Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

A Summer Day at the Seashore New England

Catskill Clove Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Catskill Clove

Seascape Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Seascape

Seascape early evening Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Seascape early evening

Coastal View Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Coastal View

Marine Landscape Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Marine Landscape

Looking out to Sea Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

Looking out to Sea

Alfred Thompson Bricher

A Pensive Moment

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Along the Coast

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Along the Hudson

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Along the Shore

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Thompson Autumn Landscape

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Autumn Landscape

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Baily's Island Maine

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Blue Point Long Island

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Boating in the Afternoon

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Brundith Head Grand Manan

Alfred Thompson Bricher

By the Shore

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Calm Morning Mawomet

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Cattle by the River

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Coastal Scene with Lighthouse

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Cushing Island Portland Harbor

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Drifting

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Far Rockaway Beach

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Grand Summer Grand Manan

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Haying

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Hunter in the Meadows of Old Newburyport Massachusetts

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Landscape with Water

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Low Tide

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Low Tide at Swallow Tail Cove

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Mist Clearing Grand Manan

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Narragansett Bay

Alfred Thompson Bricher

New York Harbor with the Brooklyn Bridge Under Construction

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Newburyport Marshes

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Otter Cliffs Mount Desert Island Maine

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Rocky Coastline

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Rowboats for Hire

Alfred Thompson Bricher

The Daisy Field

Alfred Thompson Bricher

Tontue Mountain Lake George aka Tongue Mountain Lake George

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West Island. Seaconnett Point. Rhode Island. A Sunny day on the Coast Print by Alfred Thompson Bricher

West Island. Seaconnett Point. Rhode Island. A Sunny day on the Coast

Alfred Thompson Bricher (April 10, 1837 – September 30, 1908) was a painter associated with White Mountain art and the Hudson River School.

Life and work

Bricher was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was educated in an academy at Newburyport, Massachusetts. He began his career as a businessman in Boston, Massachusetts. When not working, he studied at the Lowell Institute. He also studied with Albert Bierstadt, William Morris Hunt, and others. He attained noteworthy skill in making landscape studies from nature, and after 1858 devoted himself to the art as a profession. He opened a studio in Boston, and met with some success there. In 1868 he moved to New York City, and at the National Academy of Design that year he exhibited “Mill-Stream at Newburyport.” Soon afterward he began to use watercolors in preference to oils, and in 1873 was chosen a member of the American Watercolor Society. In the 1870s, he primarily did maritime themed paintings, with attention to watercolor paintings of landscape, marine, and coastwise scenery.[1][2] He often spent summers in Grand Manan, where he produced such notable works as Morning at Grand Manan (1878). In 1879, Bricher was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member.[3]


Hudson River School
Castle Rock, Marblehead (1878), Smithsonian American Art Museum

Bricher was one of the last painters of the famed Hudson River School. By the end of his life, his style of painting that included landscapes and luminism fell out of style, with Modern Art becoming the premier artistic movement. As his style of art faded, so did his fame.[4]


Rediscovery

Over time Bricher's artwork gathered more attention and by the 1980s he began to be credited as one of the nineteenth century's greatest maritime painters. A self-taught luminist, he explored the effects of light and how it reflected, refracted, and absorbed on landscapes and seascapes.


Later life
Blue Point, Long Island, 1888

As a lover of maritime life and the sea he purchased a home in the 1890s close to the sea in the New Dorp section of Staten Island where he had views of the Atlantic Ocean and Raritan Bay. He lived and painted at the shore in New Dorp until his death, in Staten Island, New York, aged 71.[4]

References

"Alfred Thompson Bricher Biography". whitemountainart.com. Retrieved 17 January 2015.

Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Bricher, Alfred Thompson". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
"National Academicians". National Academy Museum. Retrieved 17 January 2015.

"Staten Island on the Web: Famous Staten Islanders". New York Public Library. Archived from the original on February 10, 2009. Retrieved July 15, 2014.

External links

American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Bricher (see index)
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