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John Bradley was a British-born American artist who was active in the New York area in the 1830s and 1840s. He is primarily known for his portrait paintings, which are held in several North American museum collections. ==Career== John Bradley’s origin is documented through the inscription, “Drawn by I. Bradley from Great Britton”, found on the reverse of each of five portraits of Totten family members. Bradley’s birth and death dates have not been discovered, nor is there evidence of any formal education as an artist. The use of distemper as a medium for some of his portraits may suggest that he also worked as a decorative or commercial painter as well as a portraitist. Possible evidence of the artist’s early career expanded with the discovery in 2005 of ''Painting of a Prize Cow in a Field'', signed "Drawn by I Bradley, Honington, Suffolk 1827", as well as a pair of children’s portraits, signed "I. Bradley, Limner, Suffolk 1830" that were consigned to Bonhams Ipswich. The earliest paintings by Bradley in U.S. collections, including ''The Cellist'', painted in 1832, may have been painted in Britain. By the end of 1832, he was evidently working on Staten Island, where he painted ''Asher Androvette'' holding a copy of the 29 November 1832 issue of The New York and Richmond County Free Press. A record of someone named John Bradley as a “deranged” resident of Sailors' Snug Harbor, a Staten Island home for retired seamen, may indicate that he had at least one family member in the area. Listings in the New York City directories for the period 1836 through 1847 show John Bradley as a portrait painter, and sometimes a miniature painter as well, at three different locations near present-day Houston Street in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. From 1836 to 1837 he was at 56 Hammersley Street; from 1837 to 1844 he was 128 Spring Street; and from 1844 to 1847 he was listed at 134 Spring Street. These addresses are inscribed on some of Bradley’s paintings and have been used to establish their dates of creation. There are no known works or any other evidence that John Bradley’s career continued after 1847. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Bradley (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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