Born in New York City, eight years after Robert Fulton sent the first
steamboat up the Hudson River, James Bard saw and reflected in his
marine paintings the industrial development of shipping in America.
He
and his twin brother John Bard together painted more than 350 marine
portraits, steamships and sailboats in the New York Harbor and on the
Hudson River. Likely James did the outline sketches, and John filled in
the color and backgrounds.
However, James quit working with
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