Alfred Thompson Bricher Paintings
American, 1837-1908
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.to
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Artist: Alfred Thompson Bricher
"Morning Sunlight, Narragansett Bay"
By Alfred Thompson Bricher
Located in Jacksonville, FL
ALFRED THOMPSON BRICHER
New York/New Hampshire, 1837-1908
"Morning Sunlight, Narragansett Bay".
Signed lower left "A.T. Bricher 1872". Titled on gallery label verso.
Oil on canvas, 14" x 24". Framed 20...
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19th Century Alfred Thompson Bricher Paintings
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Oil
The Overlook
By Alfred Thompson Bricher
Located in New York, NY
Alfred Thompson Bricher paints a coastal cottage on a hill overlooking the sea, while boats sail in the waters beyond and gray clouds mount overhead in his artwork entitled, “The Ove...
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Late 19th Century Alfred Thompson Bricher Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
"Noon at Point Judith" Rhode Island 1877
By Alfred Thompson Bricher
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Noon at Point Judith, Rhode Island 1877
by Alfred T. Bricher (1837-1908)
Medium Oil
Medium Detail Oil on canvas
Dimensions 25 x 50 inches; Framed: 40 x 65 inches
Signed Location Sign...
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19th Century Alfred Thompson Bricher Paintings
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Oil
Scene in the White Mountains by Alfred Thompson Bricher (American, 1837-1908)
By Alfred Thompson Bricher
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837-1908) , "Scene in the White Mountains" is oil on panel, measures 5.5 x 9.75 inches, and is signed and dated 1864 a...
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19th Century Hudson River School Alfred Thompson Bricher Paintings
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Oil, Panel
Lifting Fog, Grand Manan
By Alfred Thompson Bricher
Located in New York, NY
Monogrammed lower left: ATBricher
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19th Century Hudson River School Alfred Thompson Bricher Paintings
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Oil
Moonlight Seascape
By Alfred Thompson Bricher
Located in New York, NY
Monogrammed lower left: ATBRICHER
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19th Century Hudson River School Alfred Thompson Bricher Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
"Summer at the Seashore" Oil on canvas, circa 1880
By Alfred Thompson Bricher
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Alfred Thompson Bricher
(American, 1837-1908)
Summer at the Seashore
Oil on canvas
Signed Bricher l.r., circa 1880
Dimensions
18 x 39 in (45.7 x 99.1 cm)
Artist or Maker
Alfred Thomp...
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19th Century Alfred Thompson Bricher Paintings
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Oil
Oil Water Landscape with Mountains
By Alfred Thompson Bricher
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Alfred Thompson Bricher, an American artist celebrated for his exquisite marine and landscape paintings, created "Boats Sailing Between Mountains." This piece exemplifies Bricher’s m...
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Alfred Thompson Bricher Paintings
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Paper, Oil
"Rolling Waves"
By Alfred Thompson Bricher
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837-1908)
Rolling Waves
signed with conjoined initials 'ATBricher:' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 1/8 x 38 1/8 in. (51.1 x 96.8 cm.)
Alfred Thompson Brich...
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19th Century Alfred Thompson Bricher Paintings
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Oil
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Under a Divided Sky, Seascape of Shipwreck
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Rocky Coast, Narragansett Bay
By Alfred Thompson Bricher
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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.
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