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Lot 31

William Trost Richards
(1833-1905)
Lobster Traps on a Rocky Beach

26 September – 7 October 2025, 12:00 EDT
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

US$3,000 - US$5,000

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William Trost Richards (1833-1905)

Lobster Traps on a Rocky Beach
signed 'WM T. Richards.' (lower right)
watercolor on paper
sheet size 7 x 10 in. (17.8 x 25.4 cm)

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William Trost Richards was born in Philadelphia and participated in his first exhibition at age 25 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, at an exhibition organized by Albert Bierstadt. Richards was best known as a painter of the scenery of New England and spent years in the White Mountains and in Jamestown, Rhode Island. While Richards is associated with the Hudson River School, his work is often more intimate in scale and less idealized than the works of artists like Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, or Albert Bierstadt. The present work is an intimate, quiet study that likely dates to the later part of Richards's career, when he had moved to Rhode Island and began painting mostly marine scenes rather than White Mountain forest landscapes. Richards's work is held in the collections of numerous museums, including the National Gallery of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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