# Alfred Thompson Bricher artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T21:56:46.680Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1837-04-10
- Death date: 1908-09-30
- Nationality: American
- Movements: Hudson River School, White Mountain art, Late Luminism
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Alfred Thompson Bricher](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Alfred_Thompson_Bricher.jpg)
Alfred Thompson Bricher · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Thompson_Bricher.jpg

## About Alfred Thompson Bricher

Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837–1908) was an American painter identified in the collected sources as a landscape specialist. Authority records consistently establish his name, profession, nationality, and life years. Discovery sources associate his work with the Hudson River School and White Mountain art, while a German-language profile also places him in the context of late Luminism. Those stylistic labels are useful for orientation, although the available source pack does not contain a successfully fetched museum biography confirming every designation. Collectors are most likely to encounter Bricher through landscape paintings and auction records catalogued under his full name. His substantial presence in the supplied auction dataset makes accurate entity matching important: the full name, 1837–1908 life dates, and stable authority identifiers help distinguish properly catalogued records from uncertain or similarly named entries. Because the evidence is stronger for identity than for a detailed artistic chronology, this profile presents the broader movement labels cautiously.

## Common works and media

The collected biographical sources identify Bricher as a painter and landscape painter, making landscape paintings the best-supported category for auction and appraisal matching. The pack does not establish a dependable breakdown by oil, watercolor, drawing, print, specific subject, or named series. Those details should therefore be taken from the cataloguing and physical characteristics of individual works rather than inferred from this profile.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily input reports 928 auction records associated with Alfred Thompson Bricher. For appraisal research, the most defensible starting point is to compare a candidate work with public records catalogued under the same established artist identity and with a consistent work type. The source pack does not include detailed lot fields, a major-auction-house biography, or an independent price analysis, so it cannot support claims about price trends, scarcity, record prices, or attributes that reliably command premiums. Comparable sales should be reviewed in their individual sale-date and lot context. A realized price is historical evidence rather than a prediction or guarantee of current value, and attribution conclusions require examination beyond this entity profile.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity and authority records with available auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Evidence is presented conservatively when detailed market or museum sources are unavailable.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2646046
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/61415076/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500021690
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Thompson_Bricher
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Thompson_Bricher
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Thompson_Bricher
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/alfred-thompson-bricher/