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Artist: William Bradford
Lights of the Aurora
By William Bradford
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: W Bradford
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School William Bradford Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fishing Boats Off the Coast in Bass Rock, Scotland
By William Bradford
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This luminous maritime scene by American painter William Bradford captures a fleeting moment of daily life along the rugged coast of Bass Rock, Scotland. Known for his vivid Arctic e...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic William Bradford Paintings
Materials
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Fishing Camp on the Labrador Coast
By William Bradford
Located in New York, NY
In 1852, twenty-nine year old William Bradford was a failing shopkeeper in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. With a wife and child at home, Bradford, by his own admission, “spent too much time in painting to succeed” in business. Rescued from insolvency by his well-to-do in-laws, this is not the beginning of a narrative that generally leads to a happy ending. Not so with Bradford, who ultimately found international fame and fortune as a painter of arctic seascapes and dramatic marine paintings.
William Bradford, the artist, was a lineal descendant of the 17th-century Separatist leader William Bradford, a founder of the Plymouth Plantation, signer of the Mayflower Compact and Governor of the Plymouth Colony. Our Bradford born to a New Bedford ship outfitter in Fairhaven, Massachusetts By the nineteenth century, this line of Bradfords were Quakers, living on the tract purchased nearly two centuries earlier by their pilgrim ancestor. Fairhaven, across the mouth of the Acushnet River from the whaling center of New Bedford was described by a New York journalist in 1857 as “the Brooklyn of New Bedford” (Home Journal, January 3, 1857). Young Bradford displayed an early predilection for the arts, but his Quaker parents were disinclined to support this particular pursuit. After working in his father’s business and then for a dry goods merchant in New Bedford, by 1849 Bradford had set up in New Bedford as a “merchant tailor” offering outfits for “those going to California,” “seamen’s clothing,” custom-tailored “piece goods...
Category
19th Century American Realist William Bradford Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
Fairhaven Harbor (Old Tack Works Wharf)
By William Bradford
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Bradford
Category
19th Century Hudson River School William Bradford Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Board
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