Alfred Thompson Bricher

1837 Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

1859 Opened an art studio on State Street, Boston, Massachusetts

1860-61 First known sketching trip to the White Mountains

1864 First exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum

1866 Produced landscape paintings for Louis Prang and Company, Boston lithographers

1868 Moved to New York City; first exhibited at the National Academy of Design

1873 Elected member of the American Society of Painters in Watercolors

1876 Exhibited at the U.S. Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia

1878 Exhibited at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, France

1879 Elected an Associate Member of the National Academy of Design

1881 First exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

1888 First exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago

1893 Exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois

1908 Died in New Dorp, Staten Island, New York

 

  image of artist
Alfred Thompson Bricher, oil on canvas by Percival De Luce, 1879. Collection of the National Academy Museum, New York; photograph courtesy of the Frick
Art Reference Library.

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