| Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Fidelia Bridges became a specialist in the 1860s and 1870s in detailed watercolor studies of plants and flowers and birds in their natural surroundings. This was a time when watercolor became increasingly respected. She was a follower of the Pre-Raphaelite movement in art, the close-focus, detailed, small scale watercolor technique espoused by John Ruskin. Of her painting of this period, landscapist John Kensett wrote in "Art Journal": 'Her works are like little lyr (showing 500 of 2867 characters). |
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