ALFRED THOMPSON BRICHER (NY/NH, 1837-1908)
"Noon at Point Judith" (Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island), oil on canvas, signed lower left and dated '77, titled on Vose Galleries of Boston label verso and on frame label, with record of two restorations, the first in 1928, depicting the busy sea lane leading to Newport, looking down to the point from the north, with multiple craft, under a summer sky, housed in a modern gilt cove frame, OS: 31 1/4" x 55 1/4", SS: 25 1/4" x 49 1/4". Cleaned and relined, some retouching.Last of the Hudson River/Luminist painters, Bricher, who was destined to be a Boston businessman, instead opened a studio in his home town of Newburyport in 1858, aged 21, and painted with Bierstadt and Champney in North Conway, NH. He moved to New York ten years later, concentrating on coastal scenes and working mostly in watercolor. He summered in Maine, loved painting the ruggedness of Grand Manan. Provenance: From a Marblehead, MA. Estate.
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"Noon at Point Judith" (Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island), oil on canvas, signed lower left and dated '77, titled on Vose Galleries of Boston label verso and on frame label, with record of two restorations, the first in 1928, depicting the busy sea lane leading to Newport, looking down to the point from the north, with multiple craft, under a summer sky, housed in a modern gilt cove frame, OS: 31 1/4" x 55 1/4", SS: 25 1/4" x 49 1/4". Cleaned and relined, some retouching.Last of the Hudson River/Luminist painters, Bricher, who was destined to be a Boston businessman, instead opened a studio in his home town of Newburyport in 1858, aged 21, and painted with Bierstadt and Champney in North Conway, NH. He moved to New York ten years later, concentrating on coastal scenes and working mostly in watercolor. He summered in Maine, loved painting the ruggedness of Grand Manan. Provenance: From a Marblehead, MA. Estate.
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