Alfred thompson bricher artist statement
Alfred thompson bricher biography!
Alfred thompson bricher artist statement
Alfred Thompson Bricher
Artist
born Portsmouth, NH died New Dorp, NY
- Also known as
- Alfred T. Bricher
- Albert T. Bricher
- Born
- Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States
- Died
- New Dorp, New York, United States
- Biography
During a fifty-year career, Bricher made a comfortable living from his work but was rarely praised by critics.
Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he grew up in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and by was working in Boston. He became a professional painter in , after meeting Charles Temple Dix and William Stanley Haseltine while sketching at Mount Desert, Maine.
The following year he had his own studio in Newburyport. During the s, Bricher made pictures for L. Prang and Company's print catalogue; like many New England artists of this period, he sought to bring his work before a wider public.
In he married and moved his studio to New York, but over the next decades spent a great deal of time traveling, primarily sketching seascapes up