江戸で、佐野藩の武士の家に生まれました。若いころに西洋の石版画を見て、そのリアルさに衝撃を受け、油絵の道を志します。横浜でイギリス人画家ワーグマンに学び、日本で本格的に油絵を描いた最初の画家の一人になりました。縄でつるされた塩鮭を描いた《鮭》は、本物そっくりの質感で、国の重要文化財です。
Takahashi Yuichi was born in Edo into a samurai family of the Sano domain. As a young man, he saw a Western lithograph and was shocked by how real it looked. He decided to learn oil painting. He studied with the British artist Charles Wirgman in Yokohama and became one of the first true oil painters in Japan. His Salmon, showing a salted fish hanging from a rope, looks amazingly real. It is an Important Cultural Property.
