The Brandywine River Museum collects and preserves American art
with primary emphasis on the art of the Brandywine region,
American illustration and still life painting. Since 1971, when
it was founded, the museum's collections have grown to more than
3,000 works of art by hundreds of artists and thousands of other
objects in the N.C. Wyeth House & Studio. Permission to
reproduce works in the museum's collections must be obtained
through the Rights and Reproductions Office. Click here for more
information. The Valley of the Brandywine William T. Richards
Landscape & Genre Painting During much of the 19th century, when
landscape painting was a dominant form of visual expression,
many artists ventured to the Brandywine Valley. By 1819, Bass
Otis had published the nation's first lithograph--a Chester
County scene entitled House and Trees at Waterside--now in the
Brandywine River Museum's collection. Within decades, well-known
members of the Hudson River School, including Thomas Doughty and
Edward Moran, had docu