Bulletin 8 (IV:2), 1966

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'Drawn by I. Bradley From Great Britton'

by Mary Childs Black, Director
Museum of Early American Folk Art, New York
and Stuart P. Feld, Associate Curator
of American Paintings and Sculpture
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Pages 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Notes

I The Phillips subjects are Myra Ann Mills (now identified as Hannah Mills Raymond); Almira Perry; Unidentified Lady from New Canaan; Unidentified Lady and Gentleman from Dutchess County; Welcome Arnold and Mary Rowe Arnold; Unidentified Lady and Gentleman; Mr and Mrs Sheffield; John Milton Raymond and Florilla Mills Raymond; Rufus Fuller and Elizabeth Drake Fuller; Mathew Starr Barnum and Julia Fuller Barnum; Phoebe Preston Haviland; John A. Sleight and Mrs Sleight; James A. Sleight and Sarah Ann De Witt Sleight; Reverend De Witt; Ten Eyck De Witt; Lady of the Radcliffe Family; Reverend Edward Winslow Paige and Clarissa Keyes Paige; Elizabeth McKinstry Livingston; Mr and Mrs John Sanders; and Unidentified Lady from Dutchess County
.
2 The Field attributions are Julius Norton of Bennington, and Mr and Mrs Franklin Pearce (so-called).

Check-list of the Works of John Bradley

1 The Cellist. Oil on canvas,17 3/4 x 16 1/4 in. Signed and 1: dated (at lower right): 'I. Bradley Deli" 1832'. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

2 Catherine Rachel Winant Cole (Mrs John Cole). Born 1813, died 1871. Oil on canvas, 30 3/8 x 23 5/8 in. Signed, dated and inscribed (on the back): 'Mrs Catherine R. Cole. / Aged 19 Years./ Drawn by I Bradley May 1 th. 1833'. Collection of the Staten Island Historical Society, New York.

3 Captain John Cole. Born 1807, death date unknown. Oil on canvas, 30 3/4 x 27 3/4 in. Signed and dated (at lower right): 'I. Bradley Deli" 1833'. Signed, dated and inscribed (on the back). 'Capt. John Cole / Aged 26 Years./ Drawn by I Bradley May 1th. 1833 '. Collection of the Staten Island Historical Society, New York.

4 Simon Content. Oil on canvas, 30 1/2 x 26 in. Signed and dated (at lower right): 'I. Bradley Del. 1833'. Dated and inscribed (on the back): 'Simon Content / Taken in the Year 1833 Dec. / A Native from Holland / New York / America...[illegible]'. Collection of Mrs John Gordan, New York.

5 Angelina Pike Content (Mrs Simon Content). Oil on canvas, 30 1/2 x 26 in. Signed and dated (at lower right): 'I. Bradley Deli" / 1833'. Collection of Mrs John Gordan, New York.

6 Ann Cole Totten (Mrs John Totten). Born 1773, died 1840. Oil on canvas, 32 5/8 x 26 3/4 in. Signed and dated (at lower left) : 'I. Bradley Fecit 1834'. Signed, dated and 1 inscribed (on the back): Ann Totten / Aged 61 Years 1834 / Drawn by I. Bradley / From Great Britton'. Collection of the Staten Island Historical Society, New York.

7 John Totten. Born 1771, died 1846. Oil on canvas, 32 1/2 x 26 3/4 in. Signed and dated (at lower right). 'I. Bradley Fecit 1834'. Signed, dated and inscribed (on the back): 'John Totten / Aged 63 Years 1834 / Drawn; by I. Bradley / From Great Britton'. Collection of the Staten Island Historical Society, New York.

8 John Totten (the Younger). Born 1801, death date unknown. Oil on canvas, 32 1/2 x 26 5/8 in. Signed, dated and inscribed (on the back): John Totten. / Aged 33 Years, 1834. June 19th / Drawn by I. Bradley. / From Great Britton'. Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, New York.

9 Mary Ann Totten (Mrs Abraham Cole Totten). Oil on canvas, 33 x 27 in. Signed and dated (at lower left): 'I. Bradley Deli". 1834'. Signed, dated and inscribed (on the back): 'Mairy Ann Totten / Aged 22 Years 1834. / Drawn by I. Bradley. / From Great Britton'. Collection of Stuart P. Feld, New York.

10 Abraham Cole Totten. Born 1804, death date unknown. Oil on canvas, 33 x 27 in. Signed and dated (at lower right): 'I. Bradley Deli / 1834'. Dated and inscribed (on sheet of paper, at lower left): 'A. C. Totten / 1834'. Signed, dated and inscribed (on the back): 'Abraham Cole Totten / Aged 30 Years 1834. / Drawn by I. Bradley / From Great Britton'. Collection of Stuart P. Feld, New York.

11 Not illustrated. Alice Murray Ellis (?) (Mrs Abraham
Ellis?). Oil on canvas, 32 1/4 x 25 3/4 in. Collection of the Staten Island Historical Society, New York. Note: There is at present no signature on this painting, but a note on the back of an old photograph in the Staten Island Historical Society records that the picture was originally signed at the lower right, 'I. Bradley Del. 18--'.

12 Not illustrated. Abraham Ellis (?). Born 1809, died 1873. Oil on canvas, 32 1/4 x 25 3/4 in. Signed and dated (at lower right): '1. Bradley Delin 1834 '. Collection of the Staten Island Historical Society, New York.

13 Mr Newton of Newton Hook, New York. Oil on canvas, 34 1/4 x 28 1/4 in. Signed and dated (at lower left). 'I. Bradley Pinxit 1836'. Collection of Dr Lyle Harrington, Barneveld, New York.

14 Girl with Doll. Oil on canvas, 34 1/4 x 28 1/4 in. Signed and dated (at lower left): 'I. Bradley Pinxit 1836'. Collection of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Williamsburg.

15 Portrait of a Lady. Oil on canvas, 33 3/4 x 26 3/4 in. Signed and dated (at lower left): ' J. Bradley, Pinx / 1836'. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

16 Portrait of a Surveyor, cal/ed Mr Britton. Oil on canvas, 34 x 26 5/8 in. Signed and inscribed (at lower right): 'by J. Bradley 128 Spring St'. Collection of Mrs Hobart McVicker Agnew, Dorset Vermont.

17 Portrait of a Lady, called Mrs Stephens. Oil on canvas, 33 3/4 x 26 1/2 in. Signed and inscribed (at lower right): 'by J. Bradley/128 Spring St'. Collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.

18 Boyon Empire Sofa. Oil on canvas, 34 1/2 x 27 in. Signed and inscribed (at lower right): 'by J. Bradley / 128 Spring St'. Collection of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Wii1iamsburg.

19 Little Girlin Lavender. Oil on canvas, 33 7/8 x 27 3/8 in. Signed and inscribed (at lower right): 'by J. Bradley 128 Spring St: Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

20 Emma Homan (later Emma Homan Thayer). Oil on canvas, 34 x 27 1/2 in. Signed and inscribed (at lower right): 'by J. Bradley 128 Spring St.' Collection of EdgarWii1iam and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, New York.

21 James Patterson Crawford. Born 1815, died 1874. Oil on canvas, 34 x 27 in. Signed and inscribed (at lower left): 'by J. Bradley 134 Spring St. N. Y.' Collection of the Monmouth County Historical Society, Freehold, New Jersey.

22 Margaretta Bowne Crawford (Mrs James Patterson Crawford). Born 1817, died 1910. Oil on canvas, 34 x 27 in. Signed and inscribed (at lower left): 'by J. Bradley 134 Spring St. N. Y: Collection of the Monmouth County Historical Society, Freehold, New Jersey.

Authors' note:

This interim study of the work of John Bradley is the result of the labours of many people over a long period of time. The authors wish to express their appreciation to Mrs Raymond M. Safford of the Staten Island Historical Society; Mrs Hobart McVicker Agnew, Dorset, Vermont; Mr William Campbell of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the staff of the Frick Art Reference Library, NewYork. Also to Mr Edward Dwight, Director of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, who brought the fine portrait of Mr Newton of Newton Hook to our attention.

Editor's note:

We wish to thank the authors, Mrs Mary C. Black and Mr Stuart P. Feld, who wrote the article specifically for the Bulletin at the request of the National Gallery of Canada.

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