Background
Richards, William Trost was born on November 14, 1833 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Benjamin M. and Annie Richards.
Richards, William Trost was born on November 14, 1833 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Benjamin M. and Annie Richards.
Educated Philadelphia grammar and high schools. Studied in Florence, Rome and Paris.
Painter of landscapes and sea pictures. Represented in permanent collections of Metropolitan Museum, New New York Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia and Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington.
Metropolitan Museum, New New York
Schaube Gallery, Hamburg, Germany. Received Centennial Exposition medal, 1876.
Temple medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Bronze medal, Paris Exposition, 1889.
Home: Newport, Rhode Island
Married Anna Matlack, 1856 (died 1900).