WILLIAM

See also:

• BRADFORD
• BRADFORD, JOHN (1510?—1555)
• BRADFORD, WILLIAM (1590—1657)
• BRADFORD, WILLIAM (1663—1752)
• WILLIAM BRADFORD (1827—1892)

BRADFORD (1827—1892)  , American marine painter, was born at New Bedford, Massachusetts . He was a Quaker, and was self-taught, painting the ships and the marine views he saw along the coast of Massachusetts, Labrador and Nova Scotia; he went on several Arctic expeditions with Dr Hayes, and was the first American painter to portray the frozen regions of the north . His pictures attracted much attention by reason of their novelty and gorgeous colour effects . His " Steamer ` Panther ' in Melville Bay, under the Light of the Midnight Sun " was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1875 . Bradford waS a member of the National Academy of Design, New York, and died in that city on the 25th of April 1892 . His style was somewhat influenced by Albert van Beest, who worked with Bradford at Fairhaven for a time; but Bradford is minute and observant of detail where van Beest's aim is general effect .