Alfred Thompson Bricher

Alfred Thompson Bricher ( born April 10, 1837 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; † September 30, 1908 in New Dorp, Staten Iceland, New York ) was an American landscape painter of the Hudson River School and representatives of the late Luminism.

Life

Alfred Thompson Bricher was the son of an Englishman who immigrated to the United States in 1820. From 1851 to 1858 worked as a civil servant in Boston, but at the same time studied at the Lowell Institute art. In 1858 he opened his own studio in Newburyport and quit his civil service in order henceforth to be active as an artist. The studio he moved a year later to Boston in the same building where Martin Johnson Heade worked. Later he also worked with Albert Bierstadt, William Morris Hunt, Gabriella Eddy and Benjamin Champney.

After his marriage to Susan A. Wilde, he moved to New York City in 1868 and organized its first public exhibition at the National Academy of Design, where he was a member in 1879. A contract with the reproduction company Louis Prang & Co. in New York led to a large acquaintance, as his paintings as chromolithographs were commercially very successful in reproductions. He was also active in the American Society of Painters in Water - Colors, be realized within this technique image in a Tide Harbour ( now lost) was shown in the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris. In 1875, he traveled to Canada on the Grand Manan Iceland. 1882 Bricher married again in 1890 and he moved to a house in New Dorp, Staten Iceland, in upstate New York to take from there regular trips to the coast of New England.

Work

Brichers early works were created from drawings, which he made during his summer trips to the coasts of Maine and Massachusetts, and the Bay of Fundy and painted in the winter as a painting. The best known works Brichers provide accordingly represent seascapes, standing in the tradition of Fritz Hugh Lane and assigned to the later Luminism of American painting. In particular, at low water scenes he painted regularly, they were characterized by a high degree of perfection in the execution of. Overall, his oeuvre, however, was thus marked by little variety.

Selections

Sunset in the Catskills, 1862

Castle Rock, Marblehead, 1878

Rocky Head with Sailboats in Distance, about 1891