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William Trost Richards(1833-1905)Irish Village
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William Trost Richards (1833-1905)
signed 'W.T. Richards' (lower left); identified on a typed label from William Vareika Fine Arts, Newport, Rhode Island (affixed to the backing board)
oil on board
8 3/4 x 16 in. (22.2 x 40.6 cm)
Footnotes
Provenance
The family of the artist.
William Vareika Fine Arts, Newport, Rhode Island.
Sometime after to the present private collection.
Exhibited
New York City, New York, The Union Club of the City of New York, Masterpieces of the Land and Sea: The Timeless Art of William Trost Richards from the Newport, Rhode Island, Collection of William Vareika Fine Arts, October 22, 2021 – January 1, 2023 (according to a typed label affixed to the backing).
N.B.
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. Richards spent a number of years throughout his career in Europe and the present work is part of a larger body of paintings depicting the Irish landscape. Richards has created an atmospheric, quiet scene. He employs a wide variety of brushstrokes to evoke movement, stillness, and atmosphere, from the soft haze of the distant fog to the spontaneous, free wave of the grasses in the wind. 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.
