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Title: American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914
Subjects: Painters Painting, American
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the hollow of atree, which the sunshine warms ; and Mr. Guild, of Boston, his Little Stroll-ers, young Italian musicians with harp and violin in the snowy street. AllMr. Browns pictures are stories. Concerning The Passing Show, which wasin the Paris Exhibition of 1878, the London Athenceum said, The painterhas set himself to portray a bit of genuine Nature in a careful, natural man-ner, and he has succeeded in calling forth corresponding sympathies in thespectator. By the Sad Sea-Waves, which we have engraved, was exhib-ited at the National Academy Exhibition of 1878. Mr. Alfred Thompson Bricher was born in Portsmouth, New Hamp-shire, in 1837, and during his boyhood he lived in Newburyport, Massachu-setts. He was a clerk in a dry-goods house in Boston. At the age of twenty-one lie .iliandoned the counting-room for the studio. He made sketches onthe coast of Maine, and in the neighborhood of Newburyport. In 1868 heremoved to New York City, where he has a studio in the Young Mens Chris-
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THE MILL-STREAM. From a Painting by Alfred Thompson B>i< her. p, 146. ALFRED THOMPSON BRIGHT EH. \ \;, tian Association Building. Tlie most of his pictures are marines in water-colors and in oils. To the annual exhibitions of the American Water-ColorSociety he usually sends several large and important drawings. He is a lead-ing member of that organization. He is fond of depicting the indolent andeasy swaying of the summer sea in the Grand Menan region; the, rocks amiweeds along the coast; the sunlit stretch of waters, necked with distant whitesails. His first sketching season, says a writer in Appletons Art Journalfor November, 1875, was passed on the island of Mount Desert, coast ofMaine, and while there he fell in company with William Stanley Haseltineand the late Charles Temple Dix. These artists were men of genius, andyoung Bricher derived great benefit from their kindly advice. After the sea-son spent at Mount Desert, Mr. Bricher turned his attention to the bays,creeks, and

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