Powder Point, Duxbury, Massachusetts
Signed lower right: J. Ambrose Prichard 1898
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Born in Boston in 1858, J. Ambrose Pritchard was a distinguished watercolor painter celebrated for his New England landscapes and coastal scenes. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris under Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre before returning to Massachusetts, where he painted throughout the state’s shoreline communities and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. A prominent member of the Boston Art Club and Boston Society of Watercolor Painters, Pritchard enjoyed considerable success, culminating in a sold-out 1903 exhibition of 180 paintings. He died in 1905 following a stroke.
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Born in Boston in 1858, J. Ambrose Pritchard was a distinguished watercolor painter celebrated for his New England landscapes and coastal scenes. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris under Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre before returning to Massachusetts, where he painted throughout the state’s shoreline communities and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. A prominent member of the Boston Art Club and Boston Society of Watercolor Painters, Pritchard enjoyed considerable success, culminating in a sold-out 1903 exhibition of 180 paintings. He died in 1905 following a stroke.
