Thomas Birch  (1779-1851)

• Was an English-born American portrait and marine painter.
• Birch was born in London, England.
• He came to the U. S. in 1794.
• He assisted his artist father, William Birch, in preparing a 29-plate collection of engravings: Birch's Views of Philadelphia (1800).
• Thomas Birch first major painting appears to have been a view of Philadelphia from the Treaty Elm in Kensington.
• He painted portraits until about 1807, when he took up marine-painting.
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