Alfred Thompson Bricher Original Antique Hudson River School American Seascape Coastal Oil Painting Alfred Bricher
Fine original antique Alfred Bricher Hudson River seascape oil painting. Original antique frame, original condition, no repairs; painting signed lower right. Brilliant seascape by this artist. No paint restoration. Recent light clean, all paint original. Typical of this artist's seascape; over 100 years old. Just as all of our paintings, inspected by appraisers, guaranteed, and cleaned by experts. Back Wood stretcher frame end corner ties are missing. Measures 9"X12", without frame.
Alfred Thompson Bricher (April 10, 1837 – September 30, 1908) was an American painter associated with White Mountain painters, and the Hudson River School.
Bricher was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was educated in an academy at Newburyport, Massachusetts. 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. He opened a studio in Boston, and met with some success there. In 1868 he moved to New York City, and at the National Academy of Design that year he exhibited “Mill-Stream at Newburyport.” Soon afterward he began to use watercolors in preference to oils, and in 1873 was chosen a member of the American Watercolor Society. In the 1870s, he primarily did maritime themed paintings, with attention to watercolor paintings of landscape, marine, and coastal paintings.
Bricher was one of the last painters of the famed Hudson River School. By the end of his life, his style of painting that included landscapes and luminism fell out of style, with Modern Art becoming the premier artistic movement.
Over time Bricher's artwork garnered more attention and by the 1980s he began to be credited as one of the nineteenth century's greatest maritime painters. A self-taught luminist, he explored the effects of light and how it reflected, refracted, and absorbed on landscapes and seascapes.
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