Alfred bricher biography

A specialist in marine and coastal paintings, Alfred Thompson Bricher was celebrated for his precise depictions of waves breaking at the shoreline. Bricher was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and grew up in Newburyport, on the Massachusetts coast. He worked as a clerk in a dry-goods store in Boston while painting in his spare time. Bricher may have studied art at Boston's Lowell Institute but was largely self-taught. He studied the works of artists he met during sketching tours in New England and opened a studio in Boston around 1859. In 1866 he traveled to the upper Mississippi River Valley and Minnesota, the setting of many early autumnal scenes. In that year he established a long relationship with L. Prang and Company, supplying paintings from which the Boston firm published chromolithographs. These inexpensive color reproductions brought him wide recognition among the American art public.

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