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William Trost Richards (June 3, - April 17, ) was an American landscape artist associated with both the Hudson River School and the American Pre-Raphaelite movement.

Biography

William Trost Richards was born on 3 June in Philadelphia. In and he attended the local Central High School.

William trost richards biography of albert einstein William Trost Richards Biography. William Trost Richards first public showing was part of an exhibition in New Bedford, Massachusetts, organized by artist Albert Bierstadt in In the s, he produced many acclaimed watercolor views of the White Mountains, several of which are now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Between and he studied part-time with the German artist Paul Weber while working as designer and illustrator of ornamental metalwork. Richards first public showing was part of an exhibition in New Bedford, Massachusetts, organized by artist Albert Bierstadt in In he was elected honorary member of the National Academy of Design and Academician in In , he became a member of the Association of the Advanced of Truth in Art, an American Pre-Raphaelite group.

In , he departed for Europe for one year. Upon his return and for the following six years he spent the summers on the East Coast.

William trost richards biography of albert William Trost Richards (November 14, – November 8, ) was an American landscape artist. [1] Massachusetts, organized by artist Albert Bierstadt in [3].

In the s, he produced many acclaimed watercolor views of the White Mountains, several of which are now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Richards exhibited at the National Academy of Design from to and at the Brooklyn Art Association from to He was elected a full member of the National Academy in

Richards rejected the romanticized and stylized approach of other Hudson River painters and instead insisted on meticulous factual renderings.

His views of the White Mountains are almost photographic in their realism. In later years, Richards painted almost exclusively marine watercolors.

His works are featured today in many important American museums, including the National Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fogg Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.

References

§Ferber, Linda S.,In search of a national landscape : William Trost Richards and the artists' Adirondacks, , Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y., Adirondack Museum,

§Ferber, Linda S.,Never at fault, the drawings of William Trost Richards, Yonkers, N.Y., Hudson River Museum,

External links

§William Trost Richards Papers at the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art

§ paintings by William Trost Richards

§Seascape with Distant Lighthouse, Atlantic Cityfrom Richards, in YOUR CITY AT THE THYSSEN, a Thyssen Museum's project on Flickr