FRAMED ARTHUR BRADBURY SARK COASTAL SCENE

ARTHUR BRADBURY 1892 TO 1977 A SARK COASTAL SCENE

Arthur Royce Bradbury was born in September 1892 in Preston, Lancashire. He specialised in painting portraits, landscapes and marines on oil, watercolour and pastel. He studied at the St. John’s Wood School of Art before being accepted at the Royal Academy Schools. In 1913 he is recorded as living at Bournemouth, then Parkstone, Dorset in 1915 before finally settling in Poole for many years, also having an address on Sark, in the Channel Islands. Bradbury served as a cadet in Mercantile Marine serving for them on the West African trade route, before taking up art. It was then that he made several voyages on the barquentine ‘Waterwitch’ carrying coal and china clay from Cornish ports. The ‘Waterwitch’ was the last trading square rigger in British service at that time. It was his time at sea which gave Bradbury his love of ships and the sea, which became one of his favourite subjects. He became an Associate of the Royal West of England Academy and exhibited there and widely elsewhere, mostly portraits. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1913 a work titled ‘Iris’ and went on to exhibit fourteen works there. Examples of his work may be seen at the Liverpool and Brighton Public Art Galleries and in the Channel islands, as well as many private collections.

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