Arthur Royce Bradbury
Arthur Royce Bradbury was born on September 17, 1892, in Preston, Lancashire. He specialized in painting portraits, landscapes and marine scapes in oil, watercolor and pastel. Bradbury was also an accomplished etcher and teacher at the Pembroke Lodge School and Wimborne Grammar School. He studied at the St. John’s Wood School of Art before being accepted at the Royal Academy Schools. In 1913, Bradbury was recorded as living at Bournemouth, then Parkstone, Dorset in 1915 before finally settling in Poole for many years. He served as a cadet in Mercantile Marine serving for them on the West African trade route, before taking up art. It was then that he made several voyages on the barquentine ‘Waterwitch’ carrying coal and china clay from Cornish ports. The ‘Waterwitch’ was the last trading square-rigger in British service at that time. Bradbury became an Associate of the Royal West of England Academy and exhibited there and widely elsewhere, mostly portraits. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1913 a work titled Iris and went on to exhibit fourteen works there. Examples of his work may be seen at the Liverpool and Brighton Public Art Galleries.
1950s Post-Impressionist Arthur Royce Bradbury
Paper, Charcoal
1940s Arthur Royce Bradbury
Paper, Graphite
1950s Post-Impressionist Arthur Royce Bradbury
Charcoal, Paper
1920s Arthur Royce Bradbury
Oil
1940s Surrealist Arthur Royce Bradbury
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Arthur Royce Bradbury
Board, Oil
1930s Post-Impressionist Arthur Royce Bradbury
Board, Oil
1970s Fauvist Arthur Royce Bradbury
Paper, Watercolor
1920s Post-Impressionist Arthur Royce Bradbury
Oil, Panel
18th Century and Earlier Arthur Royce Bradbury
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Old Masters Arthur Royce Bradbury
Handmade Paper, Graphite
Late 19th Century Academic Arthur Royce Bradbury
Canvas, Oil
1940s Post-Impressionist Arthur Royce Bradbury
Oil, Canvas
1970s Contemporary Arthur Royce Bradbury
Graphite, Paper
1930s Post-Impressionist Arthur Royce Bradbury
Oil, Board
1920s Fauvist Arthur Royce Bradbury
Oil, Panel