TitleCoastal Scene
Artist
William Trost Richards
(American, 1833 - 1905)
Date1862
MediumOil on cardboard
DimensionsUnframed: 8 1/16 × 12 1/8 in.
Framed: 17 7/16 × 21 1/2 × 2 3/4 in.
SignedSigned at lower right: "Wm. T. Richards 1862"
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of James A. Suydam, 1865
Object number1067-P
Label TextCoastal Scene is Richards’ earliest known coastal painting, and probably depicts one of the New Jersey beaches that he visited during the course of 1859 and 1860. It entered the National Academy’s collection in 1865 as part of the bequest of the Academician and collector James Augustus Suydam, which also included landscapes by, among others, Benjamin Champney, Frederic Edwin Church, Jasper Cropsey, Asher B. Durand, and John Frederick Kensett. The painting features a view from the dunes toward the open sea with the sun half hidden below the horizon. The influence of John Ruskin and art of the English Pre-Raphaelites is reflected in the prominent inclusion of the low growing shrubbery and plants cluttering the foreground.Collections
- 19th Century Highlights from the Collection
