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William Trost Richards

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905), American marine painter, was born at Philadelphia,. Pennsylvania, on the 14th of November 1833. He was a pupil of Paul Weber in his native city, and lived much in France, Italy and London. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and of the American Water Colour Society. Examples of his work are in the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Penn.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D.C., and the Schaube Gallery, Hamburg. He died at Newport, Rhode Island, on the 8th of November 1905. His daughter Anna M. Richards (b. 1870), figure and landscape painter, was a pupil of John La Farge and Benjamin Constant.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'William Trost Richards'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​w/william-trost-richards.html. 1910.
 
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