Paradise, Newport
Medium
gouache on gray fibrous paper
Dimensions
overall: 58.4 x 94.2 cm (23 x 37 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Adolph Caspar Miller Fund and Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Accession Number
1979.12.1
About the Artist
William Trost Richards · 1833–1905
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...