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Richards (WILLIAM TROST an born)

WILLIAM TROST, an born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 14, 1833.

He was a student of Paul Weber and Rome, and Paris. From 1878 till 1880, later studied in Europe, at Florence, he had a studio in London, England. He was an honorary member of the National Academy. At the Metropolitan Museum, RICHARDSON in New York City, is a series of 47 watercolor marines and landscapes, painted by him in 1871-1876. His "Wissahickon" was on exhibition at the Centennial Exposition in 1876. In the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D. C., is hung his "On the Coast of New Jersey." Among his best-known paintings in oil are: "Midsummer" (1862); "Woods in June" (1864); "Land's End" (1880); "Old Ocean's Gray and Melancholy Waste" (1885). He died at Newport, R. I., Nov. 8, 1905.