Saturday, April 16, 2022

 Alfred Thompson Bricher
 (1837-1908) 


Alfred Thompson Bricher was a painter associated with White Mountain art and the Hudson River School. He began his career as a businessman in Boston, Massachusetts. When not working, he studied at the Lowell Institute. He also studied with Albert Bierstadt, William Morris Hunt, and others. He attained noteworthy skill in making landscape studies from nature, and after 1858 devoted himself to the art as a profession.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Thompson_Bricher

A Quiet Day near Manchester
1873
Oil on canvas
50.8 x 97.16 cm
National Gallery of Art
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.140908.html

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