The Bell Buoy
Medium
watercolor with white highlights over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 33.02 × 60.64 cm (13 × 23 7/8 in.) sheet: 39.69 × 66.68 cm (15 5/8 × 26 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Charles C. Glover, Jr.)
Accession Number
2015.19.944
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...