Thomas Birch

1779–1851 · Romanticism

Thomas Birch was an English-born American portrait and marine painter.

21 paintings

• Capture of the Tripoli by the Enterprise (1806–12)
• Shipwreck near a Rocky Coast (1833)
• Winter (1838)
• Perry’s Victory on Lake Erie (1814)
• Cabin with Children Playing (1834)
• Winter Landscape
• The Narrows, New York Bay (1812)
• Southeast View of "Sedgeley Park," the Country Seat of James Cowles Fisher, Esq. (1819)
• Mr. Veacock (1812)
• Loss of the Schooner 'John S. Spence' of Norfolk, Virginia, 2d view-Rescue of the Survivors (1833)
• An American Shore Scene (1827)
• An American Ship in Distress (1841)
• Milford, North Wales, Pennsylvania (1833)
• The Landing of William Penn (1850)
• New York Harbor (1831)
• Sleigh Ride in the Country (1841)
• Skating (1835)
• Engagement Between the "Constitution" and the "Guerrière" (1813)
• Engagement Between the "United States" and the "Macedonian" (1813)
• View of the Delaware near Philadelphia (1831)
• The Wasp and the Frolic (1820)