William trost richards biography of alberta

          Anna Richards Brewster was the daughter of the well-known nineteenth-century landscape painter William Trost Richards, an artist identified with the Hudson....

          William Trost Richards, and John Lee Fitch, had “discovered” Keene Valley in the s and created the nucleus of a summer artists' colony.

        1. William Trost Richards, and John Lee Fitch, had “discovered” Keene Valley in the s and created the nucleus of a summer artists' colony.
        2. TOPofART William Trost Richards (Rhode Island Coast: Conanicut Island, c) Fine Art Paper Print Reproduction (10x in) (x cm).
        3. Anna Richards Brewster was the daughter of the well-known nineteenth-century landscape painter William Trost Richards, an artist identified with the Hudson.
        4. William Trost Richards (), who would become a major influence.
        5. Trees and shrubs on Nosehill park here in Calgary.

          6. A native of Philadelphia, William Trost Richards had a fifty-year career as a noted landscape and marine painter whose mature work combined extremely detailed aspects of nature with atmospheric qualities. He was especially innovative for his time, because he borrowed informal composition techniques from the Pre-Raphaelites of England, painting lights and colors outdoors as he actually observed them. His formal education ended at age thirteen when he quit school to support his family by working as a commercial draughtsman designing ornamental metal fixtures.

          He studied painting privately with William Stanley Haseltine and Paul Weber from whom he learned a meticulous graphic technique. He was supported by local persons in Philadelphia who financed a year of study in Europe from 1855 to 1856, and in 1867, he went abroad for a second time.

          He did numerous pencil drawings and paintings of Italy and Switzerland and much painting along English coasts.

          By the 1850s, he had decided tha