The Painter...William Trost Richards..

William Trost Richards
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William Trost Richards 1833-1905, American painter, b. Philadelphia, studied in Florence, Rome, and Paris, and settled in Germantown, Pa. Early in his career he painted landscapes and still lifes, but a year after buying a house in Newport, R.I. (1866), he turned to marine paintings. His light-struck seascapes, which follow in the tradition of luminism , are highly realistic. His work was long neglected, but interest in it revived in the last decades of the 20th cent. ...

William Trost Richards 1833-1905, American painter, b. Philadelphia, studied in Florence, Rome, and Paris, and settled in Germantown, Pa. Early in his career he painted landscapes and still lifes, but a year after buying a house in Newport, R.I. (1866), he turned to marine paintings. His light-struck seascapes, which follow in the tradition of luminism , are highly realistic. His work was long neglected, but interest in it revived in the last decades of the 20th cent.