biografía de Alexander Hay RITCHIE (1822-1895)

Lugar de nacimiento: Glasgow, Scotland

Lugar de defunción: New Haven, CT

Direcciones: NYC and Brooklyn, through at least 1891; during his last years he lived in New Haven, CT

Profesión: Engraver, etcher; genre, portrait & figure painter

Estudios: in Edinburgh with Sir William Allan, before 1841

Exposiciones: NAD, frequently, 1848-91; Paris Salon, 1859; Brooklyn AA, 1861-72; PAFA, 1863; Boston AC, 1887

Asociaciones: NA, 1871.

Comentarios: Emigrated to America in 1841, worked for a few years in Canada, and settled in NYC about 1847. He established a prosperous engraving business in NYC and also became known as a painter of portraits and genre scenes.

Fuentes: G&W; DAB; Cowdrey, NAD; Naylor, NAD; Rutledge, PA; NYCD 1847+; Clement and Hutton; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 384.