Anna Richards Brewster Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Anna Richards Brewster
Early Life and Family Born: Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1870) Parents: Anna Matlack (poet and playwright) and William Trost Richards (landscape painter) Brother: Theodore William Richards (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1914) Early exposure to artistic environment through her parents' professions. Education and Artistic Training Studied at Cowles Art School, Boston (1888), winning a scholarship. Training with Wi
lliam Merritt Chase and John LaFarge at the Art Students League of New York (1890). Awarded the Dodge Prize by the National Academy in 1890 for "An Interlude to Chopin" (painting now lost). Studied at Académie Julian, Paris (between 1890 and 1895) during travels in Europe. Career and Artistic Style Frequently painted alongside her father in England, Ireland, and Scotland between 1890-1895. Relocated to London (1896), mainta…