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Frederick Arthur Bridgman
American Orientalist painter
born 1847 - died 1928
Student of:
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) from 1866 to 1870.
Teacher of: Jay Hall Connaway (1893-1970).
Officer of: Légion d'Honneur (from 1907).
Frederick Bridgman was born in Alabama, the son of an itinerant doctor
from Massachusetts. Frederick Arthur Bridgman’s father died when
Frederick was only three years old and, sensing the north-south tensions
prior to the Civil War, Frederick Arthur Bridgman’s mother decided to
return with her two sons to Boston in the north. However they soon moved
to New York where Frederick, already showing artistic talent, joined the
American Banknote Company as an apprentice engraver. But in spite of
Frederick Arthur Bridgman’s progress and the opportunities for rapid
promotion, he preferred to dedicate Frederick Arthur Bridgman’s time to
painting, taking evening drawing classes first at the Brooklyn Art
Association, then at the National Academy of Design. It is recounted
that he even rose at 4 o'clock every morning to paint before going to
work.
Along with Frederick Arthur Bridgman’s fellow-countryman Edwin Lord
Weeks, Frederick Arthur Bridgman is considered to be one of the doyens
of the American Orientalist school.
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