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Edward Holmes, RBA (British, fl. 1841-1891) A Milkmaid with two calves signed lower left on the trough "E Holmes" oil on canvas 44 x 59cm (17 x 23in) Frederick Lee Bridell (baptised 5 December 1830 – died 20 August 1863) was a popular painter of 19th century Britain, initially as a Portrait artist, gaining favour with luminaries such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning who entertained Bridell and his wife (Eliza Florence Fox, a fellow artist), for their wedding meal at Bocca di Leone, Rome in 1859 After a short period in Paris, where he copied works in the Louvre, he established himself in Munich. Here he became influenced by the Dutch school, copying works by Cuyp, Van der Velde and Berchem. He was inspired by the mountainous landscape of the Tyrol, and its wooded valleys. Returning to England in 1855, he completed works from his sketches abroad and completed numerous commissions for the well-to-do of Southampton. He began to exhibit at the Royal Academy, the British Institution and the Liverpool Academy 1858. He set up a studio in Rome, near the Spanish Steps,in December of that year. There are entertaining descriptions of life in the city at this time, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Both he and his wife were interested in the culture and art and wrote details of their visits in French and Italian Notebooks. In Rome in 1859, Bridell met and married Eliza Fox, an artist, and the daughter of an MP, William Johnson Fox. She was known to influential writers and thinkers of the time, and Robert Browning, ‘gave her away’ at the ceremony. The newly wedded couple had their ‘wedding dinner’ at the Browning’s apartment in Bocca di Leone. Two days later they were both painting at their respective studios. Bridell, freed from the deprivation of his early years, embarked on his most prolific period. In Italy, he completed monumental works inspired by the landscape near Rome. It was however, in the vicinity of the Italian Lakes that he was most inspired to paint. Driven by his all consuming desire to record the grand vistas before him, he ignored the illness that was taking hold of his body. Returning to England in 1863, he died in Kensington in August of that year and was buried in Brompton Cemetery Writing Bridell’s obituary,[5] Sir Theodore Martin stated ‘Had he lived,he must have earned a European reputation; and numerous and fine as are the works he has left, his early death is, in the interests of Art, deeply to be deplored. We have only to add, that in manners Mr.Bridell was simple, amiable and modest. Firm without self-assertion, sincere without being obtrusive, we can believe he was beloved by his friends, as most certainly he was respected by those whose knowledge of him was comparatively slight’. Relined and cleaned.

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