John Bradley

American, active 1827/1847

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A young girl stands facing us next to a tall, stylized plant, perhaps a rose bush, in this vertical portrait painting. Looking at us with blue eyes, she has light, peachy skin, and her brown hair is parted down the middle and pulled back. Her shoulders are bare, and she wears a coral-red bead necklace. The dress flares out where it encircles her upper arms above short ruffled sleeves. A black apron is tied around her waist and falls to about her knees. The skirt of the dress is longer, falling to midcalf, and wide, white petticoats extend like pant legs below to white stockinged feet in black shoes. A white, lace-trimmed handkerchief is tucked into her apron, and she wears a black brooch at her chest. She holds a gray glass basket in her left hand, our right, filled with two red roses, a blue flower, and green leaves. With one hand, she touches a stem on the rose bush, which is planted in a red pot. One flower has fallen to the floor next to a brown and white cat, perhaps a kitten, in the lower left corner of the painting. The girl and cat stand on an emerald-green carpet, the edge of which runs from the lower right corner of the canvas toward the back of the darkened room.
John Bradley, Little Girl in Lavender, c. 1840, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1958.9.3

Little Girl in Lavender

John Bradley · c. 1840 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1958.9.3

Bibliography

1945

  • Lipman, Jean. "I. J. H. Bradley, Portrait Painter." Art in America 33 (July 1945): 154-166.

1946

  • Stechow, Wolfgang. "Another Signed Bradley Portrait." Art in America 34 (January 1946): 30-32.

1966

  • Black, Mary C. and Stuart H. Feld. "Drawn by I. Bradley from Great Britton." Antiques 90 (October 1966): 502-509.

1971

  • Fitzgerald, Rosemary. "Artist John Bradley and the Totten Portraits." The Staten Island Historian 31 (January-March, 1971): 42-44.

1981

  • Rumford 1981, 61-65.

1983

  • Manchester, Ruth Garbisch. "Music and Mrs. Crawford: The Irish Connection." Monmouth County Historical Association Newsletter 12 (Fall 1983): 1-3.

1992

  • Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 27-28.