Bidspirit auction | William Trost Richards (1833 -

William Trost Richards (1833 - 1905) American - William Trost Richards (1833 - 1905) Oil on board, Signed , measures 5.5” x 8” , w/frame 8.5” x 10.5”A native of Philadelphia, William Trost Richards had a fifty-year career as a noted landscape and marine painter whose mature work combined extremely detailed aspects of nature with atmospheric qualities. He was especially innovative for his time because he borrowed informal composition techniques from the Pre-Raphaelites of England, painting lights and colors outdoors as he actually observed them. Condition: Good Condition