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William Bradford
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painter of marine and Arctic scenes, arrived in London in May 1871 with
two paintings commissioned by James Ashbury (1834--1895), an English
yachtsman with a large fortune. Ashbury had come to New York City the
year before, entering William Bradford’s schooner yacht Cambria in a
match race across the Atlantic Ocean against the schooner Dauntless,
owned by the flamboyant proprietor of the New York Herald, James Gordon
Bennett (1841--1918). From a starting line off Gaunt Head, Ireland,
Cambria crossed the finish line off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, seventeen
days later and a scant hour and seventeen minutes ahead of Dauntless.
Ashbury did not have long to savor William Bradford’s victory, for on
August 8, 1870, he met defeat in the race be had crossed the ocean
for--to reclaim for Britain the America's Cup. (1) While in New York
City, Ashbury met Bradford, probably at William Bradford’s rooms in the
Tenth Street Studio Building, where he ordered the paintings and
encouraged him to bring them to London when completed.
Lorne and Princess Louise welcomed the painter again in 1874, when
Bradford asked the princess if she would enter her View of the
Sermitsialik Glacier in the next year's spring exhibition at the Royal
Academy in London. She agreed and said she would speak to the president
of the academy Sir Francis Grant (1803-1878), about giving it a
favorable position in the show. As for her mother's painting she said
that Her Majesty was delighted with her picture, also, and I will speak
to the Queen in regard to its going to the Royal Academy next year, and
you need not give yourself the least trouble about it being included in
the exhibition.
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