Folk
JOHN BRADLEY (active 1826–1847)
Portrait of Mr. Newton, 1836
Oil on canvas, 31 1/4 x 28 in.
Signed, dated, and inscribed (at lower left): I. Bradley Pinxit 1836
RECORDED: Mary Childs Black and Stuart P. Feld, “Drawn by I. Bradley From Great Britton,” Antiques XC (October 1966), pp. 505, 506 fig. 13 illus., 507 // Mary Childs Black and Stuart P. Feld, “Drawn by I. Bradley From Great Britton,” The National Gallery of Canada Bulletin 4 (1966), pp. 3, 4, 6 fig. 11 illus. [reprint of Antiques article] // M. C. Trexler, “Update on John Bradley, New York City Nineteenth-Century Folk Painter,” February 25, 2006, http://www.hihosarah.com/bradley.htm
EX COLL.: Dr. Lyle Harrington, Barneveld, New York, by 1966; private collection, until 2007