Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837-1908) Sailing by the Lighthouse 18 x...

Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837-1908)
Sailing by the Lighthouse
signed 'AT BRICHER' (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 x 36 1/8 in. (45.7 x 91.8 cm.)

Footnotes

Provenance
Private collection, Connecticut.
Litchfield Auction Gallery, Connecticut.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 1989.

Bricher may have loosely based this composition on different real-life lighthouses, possibly including Lynde Point Lighthouse (before its renovation) in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, and Execution Rocks Light in Long Island Sound.

We would like to thank Jeremy D'Entremont, Historian for the U.S. Lighthouse Society, for his kind assistance in cataloguing this lot.