Albert Pinkham Ryder, March 19, 1847–March 28, 1917, was an American painter born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He studied under William Edgar Marshall and at the National Academy of Design in New York. He traveled in Europe and studied the work of the Barbizon and Hague schools.

Ryder became a founding member of the Society of American Artists in 1877 and exhibited with it through 1887. His paintings include landscapes, seascapes, and subjects drawn from literature and religion. Works by Ryder are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and other public collections.

After 1900, Ryder produced fewer new paintings and sometimes reworked earlier pictures. His health declined in 1915, and he died in 1917 in New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art held a memorial exhibition of his work in 1918.

Dedicated to the memory of Thor Furulund, Norwegian painter, June 12, 1943 – January 16, 2016, who loved Pinkham Ryder

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