William Bradford and the royal touch.(Biography)

From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: Kugler, Richard C. | Copyright information

William Bradford (Pl. III), a painter of marine and Arctic scenes, arrived in London in May 1871 with two paintings commissioned by James Ashbury (1834--1895), an English yachtsman with a large fortune. Ashbury had come to New York City the year before, entering his schooner yacht Cambria in a match race across the Atlantic Ocean against the schooner Dauntless, owned by the flamboyant proprietor of the New York Herald, James Gordon Bennett (1841--1918). From a starting line off Gaun...

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