Incomparable Scenery
Comparative Views in the White Mountains

The Belknap Mill Society
Sunday, August 15, 1999 through Thursday, September 30, 1999
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Largely self-taught, Alfred Thompson Bricher studied in his leisure hours at the Lowell Institute in Boston and also attended an academy in Newburyport, Massachusetts.  Bricher was a businessman in Boston from 1851 to 1858 before he became a professional artist.  In the 1860's Bricher followed his contemporaries to the popular vistas of the White Mountains.  There, particularly at North Conway, he studied and painted with Albert Bierstadt, William Morris Hunt, Gabriella Eddy, and Benjamin Champney.  Bricher was a prolific artist and in 1860-61 alone records 20 finished paintings.  Attesting to his popularity as an artist, as well as the popularity of his subject matter, are numerous chromolithographs made after his work.   In 1868 he moved from Boston to New York.  In 1874 he became a member of the American Society of Painters in Water Colors.  He was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1879.  During the 1870's he devoted himself almost entirely to marine painting and spent much of his time exploring the coast of Maine, Narragansett Bay, and the Jersey Shore.  His paintings were exhibited at the Boston Art Club from 1874 to 1894 and the National Academy of Design from 1868 to 1900.

A wonderful Bricher painting of Mount Washington from the Intervale is on display in this exhibition.

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