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Thomas Birch (1779-1851)
Aliases: Thomas (1779) Birch
Professions: Painter
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Thomas Birch 1779-1851 , The Battery and Harbor, New York oil on canvas
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Thomas Birch 1779-1851 , USS United States vs. HMS Macedonian oil on canvas
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THOMAS BIRCH (1779-1851)Commodore Perry Leaving the Lawrence for the
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Thomas Birch 1779-1851 , Philadelphia from the Delaware River oil on canvas
Thomas Birch Biography
(b Warwicks, 26 July 1779; d Philadelphia, PA, 14 Jan 1851). American painter of English birth. He was one of the most important American landscape and marine painters of the early 19th century. He moved to America in 1794 with his father William Birch (1755–1834), a painter and engraver from whom he received his artistic training. The family settled in Philadelphia, where William, armed with letters of introduction from Benjamin West to leading citizens of that city, became a drawing-master. Early in their American careers both Birches executed cityscapes, several of which were engraved. Thomas contributed a number of compositions to The City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, North America, as it Appeared in the Year 1800 (1800), a series of views conceived by the elder Birch in obvious imitation of comparable British productions. An English sensibility is also apparent in the many paintings of country estates executed by father and son in the early 19th century (e.g. Eaglesfield , 1808; priv. col., see 1986 exh. cat., p. 26). These compositions, along with such portrayals of important public edifices in and near Philadelphia as Fairmount Waterworks (1821; Philadelphia, PA Acad. F.A.; see fig.), emphasize the cultural progress and commercial prosperity of the young United States as well as its almost Edenic natural beauty. Birch is also known for his representations of winter landscapes (examples in Shelburne, VT, Mus.).
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Property from the estate of glen s. foster THOMAS BIRCH (1779-1851) View of New York Harbor oil on
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Thomas Birch 1779-1851 , View of Annapolis, Maryland and the School Ship, St. Mary oil on canvas
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THOMAS BIRCH 1779-1851
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WILLIAM RUSSELL BIRCH (ANGLO/AMERICAN 1755-1834) AND THOMAS BIRCH (ANGLO/ AMERICAN 1779-1851). IMPORTANT ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR VIEW FOR WM. BIRCH & SON'S 'THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA,' 'HIGH ST. WITH THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,' 1799.
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Thomas Birch (American, 1779-1851)
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