William Trost Richards Furniture
William Trost Richards was born in Philadelphia on November 14, 1833. He studied in Philadelphia with Paul Weber in 1850 and possibly at the PAFA, CA, 1852, before studying in Florence, Rome and Paris from 1853–56. Richards worked as an illustrator and as a designer of ornamental light fixtures for a Philadelphia firm that produced gas lamps while studying privately the techniques of painting with German taught landscape-portrait painter Paul Weber (1823–1916). In 1852, he exhibited his first landscapes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and in 1853 some of his romantic drawings appeared in the portfolio, The Landscape Feeling of American Poets. By 1855, Richards and marine-landscape painter William Stanley Hasseltine (1835–1900) sailed for Dusseldorf, where Richards studied with Leutze and Albert Bierstadt, the latter of whom inspired Richards. After painting landscapes in oil in France and Italy, Richards married and returned to Germantown. Enthused by the works of Frederick Edwin Church and John Kensett by 1856, it was Church's use of light and atmosphere that Richards began to imitate and two years later he was painting outdoors. In 1866, Richards traveled to England and his focus turned from landscapes to marine painting. A year later, a storm at sea caught the painter's attention, and he began to study the structure of waves and how weather affects the sea and shore. He died in Newport, Rhode Island, on November 9, 1905.
Mid-19th Century Antique William Trost Richards Furniture
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage William Trost Richards Furniture
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1960s Swedish Modern Vintage William Trost Richards Furniture
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Late 20th Century American Post-Modern William Trost Richards Furniture
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20th Century European William Trost Richards Furniture
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Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique William Trost Richards Furniture
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1950s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage William Trost Richards Furniture
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1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage William Trost Richards Furniture
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1920s European Vintage William Trost Richards Furniture
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1920s Finnish Vintage William Trost Richards Furniture
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Mid-19th Century Irish Victorian Antique William Trost Richards Furniture
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20th Century American Classical William Trost Richards Furniture
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Early 20th Century American Modern William Trost Richards Furniture
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