From London, where in 1813, he exhibited three miniature paintings at the Royal Academy, Hugh Bridport emigrated to America and established himself as a portrait and landscape painter, engraver, lithographer, architect and art teacher.
With his brother, George Bridport, 1783-1819, who was by then a respected artist, especially noted for work at the U.S. Capital, he opened in 1816 a drawing academy in Philadelphia. His brother died three years later, and Hugh Bridport kept his reside (showing 500 of 934 characters). |
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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