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Title: American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914
Subjects: Painters Painting, American
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ainting of a circus exhibition, described in thecatalogue as An American Circus in France. The painter is Mr. FrederickA. Bridgman, an artist yet in the youth of his career. Mr. Bridgman wasborn iu Tuskegee, Alabama, in the year 1847. He showed a strong love forthe arts at an early age. His father having died, his mother removed Northwith her children, and decided to apprentice her son to bank-note engraving.Accordingly, he began work with the American Bank-Note Company in 1862.During this period he painted at home, and in the winter season studied inthe art-schools in Brooklyn. After remaining in the employ of the Bank-NoteCompany nearly four years, his engagement was canceled, at his own solicita-tion, that he might go to Europe to study painting. He sailed for France inMay, 1866, and on landing went direct to Paris. After entering the Ecoledes Beaux-Arts, he began his studies under Gerome, who gave him muchkindly advice, and has since that time taken great interest in his progress.
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5 FREDERICK A. RRIDOMAN. 153 During the first three years spent abroad, he experienced the usual discour-agement of young artists struggling for recognition, notwithstanding that LeMonde Illustre had engraved a number of his paintings, which was an honor;but in the fourth year he painted his Circus and De quoi partent les JeunesFilles, the success of which at once brought him into notice. At this timehis pictures were well hung in the Salon, and the Messrs. Goupil, of Paris,purchased many of his works. Young Bridgman spent his summers in Brit-tany, in the little town of Pont-Aven, the quiet resort of a little colony ofartists, and his winters in Paris. The winter of 1870-71, however, foundhim, together with a number of American, English, and French artists, againin Pont-Aven, the war interfering with arts in the cities. This happening tobe an unusually severe winter, there were two weeks of snow and ice—a thingunprecedented in the annals of Brittany. Taking advantage of this opportu

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