Henry Bright (painter)

Henry Bright (* 1810-1814 in Saxmundham, † September 21, 1873 in Ipswich ) was an English landscape painter.

Life

Henry Bright was born 1810-1814 in Saxmundham than likely the ninth child of the watchmaker Jerome Bright and his wife Susannah Alburgh. It was given by his father at a druggist in Woodbridge in teaching. Once finished, he went to Norwich, where he worked as a chemist or pharmacist at the local hospital. In Norwich there was at that time a group of landscape painters (The Norwich Society of Arts ), with whom he came in contact, and it eventually incited, professionally to painting. In 1833 he married Eliza Brightley in his hometown of Saxmundham.

1836 the family moved to London, where Henry Bright spent the next twenty years. He became a member of the Institute of Painters in Watercolours, at whose exhibitions he took part in 1841 and 1844. After that he took part with oil paintings in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy. During this time he also took several trips and painted landscapes of the Rhine, the French and the Dutch Coast and the Yorkshire Moors. During the time in London also has four children were born to him, two sons and two daughters, with only the latter reach adulthood. His wife Eliza died in 1848.

For health reasons, moved Henry Bright in 1848 with his two daughters back to Saxmundham, where he lived in the house of his brother. In 1860 he then moved to the nearby Surrey, and from 1868 on he lived in Ipswich, where he had professional contacts around since the 1850s, when he was a member of the Suffolk Fine Art Association and participated in their exhibitions in Ipswich. But he also traveled frequently for business to London, and to participate in exhibitions or to attend exhibitions.

1873 Henry Bright died in Ipswich.

Swell

• Henry Bright, Dictionary of National Biography
• Henry Bright's biography at Saxmundham.org