William Trow Richards: An American landscape painter attached to the White Mountain.

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The painter was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 1833+065438+ 10/4.

From 1850 to 1855, I worked as a decorative designer and a metalworking illustrator under the German artist Paul Weber.

Richards' first public exhibition was held in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

1862 was elected honorary academician of the National Design and Research Institute, and 187 1 was elected academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.

1863 became a member of the association for the promotion of artistic truth.

In the 65438+1970s, he created many well-received watercolors in Baishan, some of which are now collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ..

188 1 year, he built a house in Jamestown, Rhode Island, and lived and worked there all his life.

The painter died in Newport, Rhode Island, USA on April 1905.

Richards did not adopt the romantic and stylized methods of other Hudson River painters, but insisted on meticulous authenticity rendering. His "White Mountain" is almost realistic photography.