A Rocky Coast

A Rocky Coast by William Trost Richards

Medium

Watercolor and gouache on fibrous brown wove paper

Dimensions

28 1/8 x 36 1/4 in. (71.4 x 92.1 cm)

Classification

Watercolor

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887

Accession Number

87.15.6

Tags

Seascapes

About the Artist

William Trost Richards · 18331905

William Trost Richards (1833–1905) was a prominent American landscape and marine painter born in Philadelphia, where he attended Central High School before beginning his artistic training. Between 1850 and 1855, he studied part-time under the German-born Hudson River School artist Paul Weber while working as a designer and illustrator of ornamental metalwork. He exhibited his first works at the Pe...

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