ANNA RICHARDS BREWSTER PAINTINGS FOR SALE & BIOGRAPHY

ANNA RICHARDS BREWSTER

American, 1870-1952

BIOGRAPHY
Anna Richards Brewster, the daughter of marine painter William Trost Richards, inherited the peripatetic habits of her father and is known for her views of England, Holland, Germany, Italy, Egypt, and the Middle East.

Brewster's formal art training included studies in Boston and New York under the tutelage of Dennis Bunker, H. Siddons Mowbray, John LaFarge and William Merritt Chase. In her early twenties she studied in Paris with Benjamin Constant and Jean Paul Laurens and traveled to Scotland, Ireland and the Channel Islands with her father. In 1895 she settled in England, where she had a studio in London until she married in 1905. Her husband, William Tenney Brewster (1870-1961), was a Shakespeare scholar and amateur poet. From 1894 to 1943 he was on the faculty of Barnard College’s English Department. Brewster was a frequent exhibitor at the National Academy of Design, where her work won a Dodge prize in 1889 and was a Member of the National Academy of Women Painters and Sculptors.

In 1954, her husband and friends organized a memorial exhibition of Brewster’s work at the Museum of the City of New York. After the exhibition, Professor Brewster donated a large number of her works to several museums. Also in 1954, her husband published the first of a series of four books chronicling her life and art. The following year, the Brewster Room at Barnard College was dedicated to the artist.

Museum & Public Collections:
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Massillon Museum, Massillon, OH
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
Museum of the City of New York, NY
Scarsdale Public Library, Scarsdale, NY
Scarsdale Women’s Club, Scarsdale, NY