Fidelia Bridges (American, 1834-1924) (53 works)

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Fidelia Bridges was born in 1834 in Salem, Massachusetts, into the family of a captain. At the age of 15, she was orphaned and her older sister took custody of her. The girl worked as an assistant in the household of the Salem shipowner Brown. In 1854 the Browns moved to Brooklyn, New York. Fidelia and her sisters moved with them. Fidelia helped raise the Browns' children, and soon opened her own school with her sisters. Later, the girl began to study art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. Her artistic style was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites. After the American Civil War, she studied for a year in Europe, but returned to the United States in the 1860s. At that time, watercolor painting was very popular, and the artist won everyone's sympathy with her picturesque drawings of birds and flowers. In 1876, many of her works were replicated in the form of reproductions by the publisher and lithographer Louis Prang. In the early 1890s, Fidelia moved to Connecticut and began to lead a secluded life. Fidelia Bridges died in 1923 in Canaan, Connecticut at the age of eighty-nine.