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William Vareika Fine Arts Ltd is a spacious, long-established art gallery located in Newport RI which purchases and offers for sale museum quality fine art from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

FEATURED ARTIST: WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS

We have specialized in the work of William Trost Richards for nearly forty years and currently number over 100 paintings, watercolors, and drawings in our extensive inventory of American art spanning three centuries.

WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
“Beach at Beverly Farms, Cape Ann, Massachusetts”
1877-82

Watercolor and gouache on heavy paper
23 x 36 ¾ inches
Framed: 30 1/4 x 44 ¾ inches
Signed and dated, lower left: Wm. T. Richards 1877-8s
Inscribed with title on verso

Exhibited: “William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape,” September 9 – December 8, 2019, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College Literature: Jeffrey Howe William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2019, illus. no. 140, p. 160; “William Trost Richards (1833-1905) Masterpieces of the Land and Sea: At Home and Abroad, A special Exhibition from the Newport, Rhode Island Collection of William Vareika Fine Arts,” October 22, 2021 – January 1, 2023, The Union Club of the City of New York

william trost richards, newport coast

WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
“Newport Coast”
1893

Oil on canvas
20 x 32 inches
Framed: 28 ½ x 41 ¼ inches
Signed and dated, lower left
Provenance: Family of the artist

William Trost Richards, Near Philadelphia Painting

WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
“Near Philadelphia”
1854

Oil on canvas
20 x 30 inches
Framed: 32 x 42 inches
Signed, dated, and titled, lower left

Provenance:
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Private Collection (acquired from above)
Sotheby’s New York, American Art, September 25, 1992, Lot 19;
Private Collection, Connecticut

Exhibited:
New York, Kennedy Galleries, “An Artists’ Gazetteer: Portraits of Places in 19th Century American Art,” 1971; Brooklyn Museum, “William Trost Richards: American Landscape and Marine Painter,” June 20-July 29, 1973, no.6 (this exhibition later traveled to Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, September 13- October 21, 1973)

Literature: Kennedy Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1971, no.293, p.210, illustrated; Brooklyn Museum, William Trost Richards: American Landscape and Marine Painter, no.6, pp. 48-49, illustrated

William Trost Richards, A Farmhouse and Grainfields painting

WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
“A Farmhouse and Grainfields, Chester County, Pennsylvania”

circa 1887

Watercolor on paper
12 x 19 1/8 inches
Framed: 22 ½ x 28 inches

Provenance: Family of the artist

Exhibited:
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania,
“Pastoral Interlude: William T. Richards in Chester County,”
September 8 – November 18, 2001

McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College
“William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape,”
September 9 – December 8, 2019

“William Trost Richards (1833-1905) Masterpieces of the Land and Sea: At Home and Abroad,
A special Exhibition from the Newport, Rhode Island Collection of William Vareika Fine Arts,”
October 22, 2021 – January 1, 2023, The Union Club of the City of New York

Literature:
Linda S. Ferber Pastoral Interlude: William T. Richards in Chester County., Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine River Museum, 2001, illus. no. 14, p. 41; Jeffrey Howe William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2019, illus. no. 139, p. 159

william trost richards, schroon river painting

WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
“Schroon River”
1855

Graphite on paper
5 ¾ x 11 ¾ inches
Framed: 15 1/8 x 20 7/8 inches
Inscribed with location and dated, lower left
Provenance: Family of the artist

Exhibited:
“William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape,” September 9 – December 8, 2019, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College

Literature:
Ferber, Linda S. “Never at Fault”: The Drawings of William Trost Richards (Yonkers, NY: The Hudson River Museum, 1986) 34-35, illus. no. 18, p. 36;
Jeffrey Howe William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2019, illus. no. 19, p. 81

William Trost Richards, Cliff and Sea painting

WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS
(1833-1905)
“Cliff and Sea”

Oil on paperboard
9 x 16 5/16 inches

Provenance:
Mr. & Mrs. William Trost Richards, to their son, Theodore William Richards, to his daughter, Grace Thayer Richards Conant, to her son, Theodore Richards Conant to his wife, Ellen Conant

William Trost Richards, Orchard in Spring painting

WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS
(1833-1905)
“Orchard in Spring”

Oil on paperboard
9 13/16 x 19 11/16 inches

Provenance: Family of the artist

Exhibited:
“William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape,” September 9 – December 8, 2019, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; “Masterpieces of the Land and Sea: At Home and Abroad,” October 22, 2021- January 9, 2022, Union Club of the City of New York

Literature:
Jeffrey Howe William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2019, illus. no. 145, p. 165

William Trost Richards, Isle of Shoals Painting

WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
“Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire”
1869

Pencil on blue paper
15 x 21 1/2 inches

Inscribed and dated, Isle of Shoals,
July 30 69, lower right
Notes for color throughout drawing

Provenance: Family of the artist

William Trost Richards, Landscape along Brandywine River Painting

WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
“Landscape along the Brandywine River, Chester County, Pennsylvania”
circa 1885

Oil on board
10 x 20 inches
Signed, lower left