BRIDELL, Frederick Lee
(b. 1830 Southampton, d. 1863 London)
English painter. His early works were portraits, but in 1848 the picture-dealer Edwin Holder gave him a five-year contract to copy Old Masters. He specialized in landscape and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1851 (A Bit in Berkshire).
In 1853 he travelled to Munich, where his enthusiasm for Alpine scenery began. On returning to England he settled in Southampton, where he received a number of commissions from a shipping magnate, J. H. Wolff. Wolff’s ‘Bridell Gallery’ in his Southampton home was intended to house the artist’s masterpiece, the Colosseum by Moonlight, now in Southampton City Art Gallery with many other Bridells from the W. Burrough Hill collection.
