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Bricher, Alfred Thompson
(b Portsmouth, NH, 10 April 1837; d New Dorp, Staten Island, NY, 30 Sept 1908). American painter. A landscape painter who primarily painted seascapes, he was the son of an Englishman who had emigrated to the USA in 1820. While working in business, Bricher took art lessons at the Lowell Institute in Boston, MA, and by 1859 was able to set himself up as a painter in Newburyport, MA. His subject-matter derived from sketches made during his summer travels along the Maine and Massachusetts coasts and to the Bay of Fundy; during the winter he worked these into finished paintings. In 1869 Bricher moved to New York, where a lucrative arrangement with the chromolithography firm of Louis Prang & Co. gave his work wide exposure through commercial reproduction.
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