tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2822810811867633712.post1517678348789862012..comments2023-09-12T07:56:38.132-07:00Comments on John Bradley, Folk Artist, Update: John Bradley, Folk Artist by Milton TrexlerTrexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03816894566173349451noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2822810811867633712.post-40024393264893861482020-01-27T07:40:10.794-08:002020-01-27T07:40:10.794-08:00Thanks all of you for posting enjoyed reading.
JRThanks all of you for posting enjoyed reading.<br />JRJohn Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13734946746377714109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2822810811867633712.post-85851445693004778202019-03-17T21:43:46.879-07:002019-03-17T21:43:46.879-07:00A colleague and I have just published the NY porti...A colleague and I have just published the NY portion of the diaries of Thomas Kelah Wharton, an artist and architect who emigrated to the US in 1830 and who by 1832 was studying art and geometry at West Point (not as a cadet, though; complex story). In his diaries he mentions:<br /><br />• September 12 1832: At breakfast, I received a note from my old school fellow, I. Bradley dated in New York. I wrote to him by return of post to ask him to visit me. The Col. [Sylvanus Thayer] kindly desired me to invite him to his house instead of allowing him to quarter at the Hotel.<br />• Sept. 30: On Sunday last, Bradley arrived in the boat from New York and stayed with me until Tuesday [i.e., 23-25 Sept.]. He seems to be well informed in English politics, for one so young.<br />• <br />Wharton was from Hull, but we do not know where he went to school (Hull is likely, or perhaps Manchester), so the comment about Bradley being an "old school fellow" doesn't help us much. So presuming that this is the same John Bradley -- which it could well be as they are both artists -- that implies that Bradley is a bit younger than Wharton's 18 ("for one so young"...) and is in the U.S. enough before the fall of 1832 to have found that Wharton was up at West Point. FYI, Wharton had arrived in NY from Ohio in the spring, but evacuated the city due to the cholera outbreak. One connection might have been through Martin E. Thompson, architect, that Wharton started working for before being evacuated.<br /><br />See: Steve Walton and Michael Armstrong (ed), _The Majestic Nature of the North: Thomas Kelah Wharton’s Journeys in Antebellum America through the Hudson River Valley and New England_ (SUNY Press, 2019)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02290089865318227115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2822810811867633712.post-37261218557436770532018-08-04T14:58:20.590-07:002018-08-04T14:58:20.590-07:00I have an oil painting signed by this artist. It&#...I have an oil painting signed by this artist. It's of a little girl. Not sure if it is real or a copy but it is signed by: J.Bradley 128 spring streetAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07596798273500172451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2822810811867633712.post-50585925270499283252014-10-04T08:15:18.946-07:002014-10-04T08:15:18.946-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06381326607775120236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2822810811867633712.post-48987427902398141092012-09-17T07:10:58.738-07:002012-09-17T07:10:58.738-07:00Please contact me at mdressler at statenislandmuse...Please contact me at mdressler at statenislandmusem dot org to add another painting to your list.M. Dresslerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17304803712909327048noreply@blogger.com