Frederick Arthur
Bridgman
Male
United States of America
1847-11-10
Tuskegee, Alabama, United States of America
1928-01-13
Rouen, Normandy, France
From the internet: Frederick Arthur Bridgman was an American artist known for his paintings of “Orientalist” subjects. Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, Bridgman was the son of a physician. He began as a draughtsman in New York City, for the American Bank Note Company in 1864–65, and studied art in the same years at the Brooklyn Art Association and at the National Academy of Design. He went to Paris in 1866, and in 1867 he entered the studio of the noted academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), where he was deeply influenced by Gérôme's precise draftsmanship, smooth finishes, and concern for Middle-Eastern themes. Thereafter, Paris became his headquarters. In 1874, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1881.
Bridgman made his first trip to North Africa between 1872 and 1874, dividing his time between Algeria and Egypt. There he executed approximately three hundred sketches, which became the source material for several later oil paintings that attracted immediate attention. Bridgman became known as “the American Gérôme”, although Bridgman would later adopt a more naturalistic aesthetic, emphasizing bright colours and painterly brushwork. His large and important composition, The funeral Rites of a Mummy on the Nile (1876–77; Speed Art Museum, Louisville), exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1877 and Royal Academy of Arts in 1881, bought by James Gordon Bennett, Jr., brought him the Cross of the Legion of Honor. The painting was later purchased by the famous American collector Wendell Cherry who donated it to the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky in 1990.
Additional visits to the region throughout the 1870s and 1880s allowed him to amass a collection of costumes, architectural pieces, and objets d’art, which often appear in his paintings. John Singer Sargent noted that Bridgman’s overstuffed studio, along with the Eiffel Tower, were Paris's must-see attractions. Though Bridgman maintained a lifelong connection to France, his popularity in America never waned. Indeed, in 1890, the artist had a one-man show of over 400 pictures in New York’s 5th Avenue galleries. When the show moved to Chicago’s Art Institute, it contained only 300 works – testimony to the high number of sales Bridgman had made.
1892 - 1912
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Round 2
Tony Wilding 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-3
6-1
Round 1
C.W. Murray 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-2
6-2
Round 1
Frederick Arthur Bridgman 1 *
E.J. Holberton
w.o.
Round 2
Baron Rodolphe Saillard 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-2
6-3
Round 1
Otway Scarlett Graham Toler 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-3
10-8
Round 2
R. Chalés 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-3
3-6
6-2
Round 1
Francis John Childs (John) Ganzoni 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-2
6-2
6-0
Round 1
Pierre Camille Gautier 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
w.o.
Round 1
Conway William Blackwood Price 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-1
6-1
Round 1
George Miéville Simond 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-1
6-1
Round 1
Charles François Simond 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
w.o.
Round 1
Frederick Arthur Bridgman 1 *
A. Haeffner
6-3
6-2
Quarterfinals
Charles Gladstone Allen 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-2
6-2
Round 2
Frederick Arthur Bridgman 1 *
A. Stoop
6-2
6-2
Quarterfinals
Ernest Witty 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-4
6-1
Round 2
Frederick Arthur Bridgman 1 *
D.H. Lindsay
6-3
6-2
Quarterfinals
Frederick Arthur Bridgman 1 *
Bertram Earp
?
Semifinals
Leslie Poidevin sr 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-0
6-0
Round 1
Frederick Arthur Bridgman 1 *
Pierre Camille Gautier
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Kurt Von Lersner 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-0
6-2
Round 2
Max Decugis 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-0
6-2
Round 1
Willie Lemaire 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-2
6-1
Quarterfinals
H. Wilson-Young 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
3-6
6-3
7-5
Round 1
Baron Horst August Gert Franz von Lersner 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
11-9
3-6
8-6
Round 1
Frederick Arthur Bridgman 1 *
J. Faure
6-1
6-3
Round 2
Dr Paul Lebreton 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-3
6-2
Round 1
George Caridia 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-4
6-0
Round 1
André Adrien Hippolyte Prévost 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-2
6-0
Round 2
Maurice Germot 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-2
6-4
Round 1
Frederick Arthur Bridgman 1 *
Henri Hébrard de Villeneuve
6-3
6-3
Round 2
Paul Émile Lecaron 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-0
6-1
Round 2
H.K. Evans 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-3
6-3
Round 1
Frederick Arthur Bridgman 1 *
Max Decugis
6-2
6-3
Round 2
Étienne Durand 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
4-6
6-1
6-1
Round 2
Frederick Arthur Bridgman 1 *
L. Sweetman
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Francis Louis Fassitt 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-1
8-6
Round 1
Stanley Riseley 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
7-5
6-3
Round 2
Max Decugis 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-2
6-4
Round 2
Frederick Arthur Bridgman 1 *
B. Bryant
6-4
6-2
Quarterfinals
Bernard Wood-Hill 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-1
1-6
6-2
Round 1
John Flavelle 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
7-5
6-1
Quarterfinals
André Vacherot 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-4
6-2
Round 2
Frederick Arthur Bridgman 1 *
Jorge Rodolfo André
6-3
6-2
Round 3
Frederick Arthur Bridgman 1 *
F. Napier
6-2
7-5
Quarterfinals
Réginald Arthur Villiers Forbes 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
1-6
6-3
6-4
Round 1
George Hetley 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-2
6-1
Round 1
Ferdinand Émile Alphonse Ortmans 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
3-6
6-3
6-4
Round 1
Frederick Arthur Bridgman 1 *
bye
Round 2
Jean Schopfer 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-3
4-6
6-2
Quarterfinals
Jean Schopfer 1 *
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
6-3
6-5