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Alfred Thompson Bricher
Birth Year : 1837
Death Year : 1908
Country : US
Alfred Thompson Bricher was an American
painter who specialized in marine subjects,
with particular emphasis on subjects from
Maine, the Bay of Fundy, and the Maritime
provinces of Canada. |
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Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Bricher
grew up in Newburyport, Massachusetts. As a
young man, Alfred Thompson Bricher worked as a clerk in Boston
while studying painting, in which Alfred
Thompson Bricher was
largely self-taught (although there is some
evidence that Alfred Thompson Bricher studied formally at
Boston's Lowell Institute). In 1858, during
a sketching trip to Mount Desert Island in
Maine, Bricher met the artists William
Stanley Haseltine and Charles Temple Dix,
who had a important impact on Alfred
Thompson Bricher’s developing style;
Haseltine's paintings of the dramatic
coastal rocks of New England inspired
Bricher to begin painting marine and coastal
subjects. Bricher also took sketching trips
to the White Mountains, the Catskills, and
the Mississippi River. Alfred Thompson
Bricher’s works began to appear in major
exhibitions, and Alfred Thompson Bricher developed a large
popular following with many illustrations
for Harper's New Monthly Magazine. |
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Bricher was
often associated with the group of painters
known as "the Hudson River School".
Alfred Thompson Bricher espoused a conservative and realistic
approach to landscapes, while Alfred
Thompson Bricher’s interests lay not only in
the play of light, water, and air, but in a
sense of luminosity and spirituality in
nature. In 1868 Bricher moved to New York
City, where Alfred Thompson Bricher worked in a studio in the
YMCA Building; in 1882 Alfred Thompson
Bricher built a house in
Southampton, Long Island, where Alfred
Thompson Bricher was able
more closely to observe the sea. During the
later part of Alfred Thompson Bricher’s
career, Bricher witnessed the advent of
modernism, a movement that seemed to make
many of Alfred Thompson Bricher’s artistic
concerns obsolete - but which, in another
sense, owed a debt to the discipline and
realism in works by Bricher and other Hudson
River painters. From 1890 until Alfred
Thompson Bricher’s death in 1908, Bricher
lived in New Dorp, Staten Island. Alfred
Thompson Bricher is
still considered one of the best maritime
painters of the late nineteenth century.
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