(1870-1952) Anna Richards Brewster studied and traveled with her father, painter William Trost Richards, before studying at the Cowles Art School in Boston and the National Academy. From 1890 to 1895 she painted with her father in the British Isles and studied in Paris. She established a studio in London in 1895, becoming acquainted with members of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, exhibiting at the Royal Academy, and taking painting trips to France, Norway, and Holland. In 1905 she married Professor William Brewster, and for more than three decades they spent summers in Matunuck, Rhode Island, winters in New York, and sabbaticals abroad, providing her with the opportunities to produce the many paintings and sketches of foreign lands for which she is known. She continued to paint after the death of her only child, a young son, in 1910. She exhibited independently and at the National Academy, and was commissioned by Columbia University to paint several portraits. Her paintings are in the collections of Harvard University, Barnard College, Georgia Museum of Art, New Britain Museum of American Art, the Lyman Allyn Museum, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Biography courtesy of Roger King Gallery of Fine Art, www.antiquesandfineart.com/rking

Anna Mary Richards Brewster was born in Germantown, one of eight children born to the artist William Trost Richards (1833 1905). She first studied art with her father and then attended the Cowles School of Art in Boston, the Metropolitan School of Art in New York, and the Art Students League. She studied with H. Siddons Mowbray and William Merritt Chase in New York, and with John La Farge in Newport, Massachusetts. Brewster went to Paris in 1890 and attended the Academie Julian and She married the Shakespearean scholar and amateur poet William Tenney Brewster in 1905.

Biography courtesy of Schwarz Gallery, www.antiquesandfineart.com/schwarzphila