William Trost Richards Oil Painting on Canvas “October on Chester County”
Item Details
An original oil painting on canvas titled October on Chester County by William Trost Richards (American 1833 – 1905). Depicted is an autumnal scene with colorful trees overhanging a calm river. Artist’s signature to lower left corner. New York Times informative newspaper article to verso. Presented without glass in a decorative gold painted wooden frame and informative metal plaque to bottom center of frame.
William Trost Richards was born on November, 14 1833 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Between 1850 and 1855 he studied with the German artist, Paul Weber, while working as an illustrator of ornamental metalwork. Richards first showing was in 1858 as part of an exhibition in New Bedford, Massachusetts, organized by artist Albert Bierstad. Richards became a noted landscape and marine painter whose work combined detailed aspects of nature with atmospheric qualities. He was especially innovative for his time due to the fact that he borrowed informal composition techniques from the Pre-Raphaelites of England by painting lights and colors outdoors as he observed them. His works are featured today in many museums, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fogg Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Berkshire Museum, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Condition
- condition consistent with age; loss of gesso to frame; billow to canvas; craquelure to upper left corner; slight scratches to frame.
Dimensions
- measures frame; visible image size 20.25" W x 12.5" H.
Item #
17NYC045-031
