Frederick Henry (Fred) Brigden
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| Born | Frederick Henry Brigden April 9, 1871 London, England |
| Died | 1956 (aged 84–85) |
| Known for | Landscape painter, illustrator, commercial engraver |
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Frederick Henry (Fred) Brigden RCA (April 09, 1871 – 1956), also known as F. H. Brigden, was a landscape painter in oils and watercolour, illustrator, and commercial engraver.
Career
[edit | edit source]Born in London, England, Brigden came to Canada with his parents in 1872 and with them, settled in Toronto.[1] In 1877, his father Frederick Brigden Senior founded the Toronto Engraving Company with Henry Beale.[2]
In 1898, Fred Brigden became the art director of the Toronto Engraving Company which in 1910 changed its name to Brigdens Limited.[2] In 1914, he opened a branch of Brigden's in Winnipeg and gave employment to such artists as Charles Comfort and many others such as Caven Atkins, Fritz Brandtner, and Nicholas Raphael de Grandmaison.[2][3]
Work
[edit | edit source]Since he was talented in art, F. H. Brigden attended the Toronto Art Students' League as a young man, studying with William Cruikshank and George Agnew Reid. He also attended meetings of the Mahlstick Club which included J. E. H. MacDonald among other artists.
Brigden painted in a traditional English watercolour style until about 1906 when he made his first trip to the north country of Canada when his work became brightened and became more decisive.[1] He visited galleries in London, Manchester and Brussels in 1910, and during the summer, Brigden studied with John F. Carlson in Woodstock, New York.[1][4] In 1912 he visited the Albright Art Gallery, today's Albright-Knox Gallery, in Buffalo, New York, where he saw the Exhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Art and post-Impressionist and expressionist landscape paintings.[5] It was the same exhibition which J. E. H. MacDonald and Lawren Harris saw and were inspired by in 1913.[1] Bridgen, however, remained more of a traditionalist and retained his long-term interest in the English watercolourists. In 1924 on a business trip to England he examined with interest a portfolio of original watercolours of John Sell Cotman.[1] In 1925, he was one of the founders[6] and the first elected President of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC/SCPA).[7]
Brigden joined the Ontario Society of Artists in 1898 and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1939 and is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada[8] and the Art Gallery of Ontario.[4] He died on a sketching trip at Bolton, Ontario in 1956.[1]
Further reading
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References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c d e f A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
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- ^ "Aquarelle!, A history of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour 1925-1985", Rebecca Sisler RCA, Porcupine Quill 1986
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