Artist: Henry Bright (1810 - 1873)
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Henry Bright, Fishermen on a Seashore, 19th century
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Winslow Homer, The Bright Side, 1865
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Sam Francis, Bright Jade Gold Ghost, 1963
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Edward Mitchell Bannister - Bright Scene of Cattle near Stream n.d. oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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George Ault - Bright Light at Russell's Corners 1946 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Richard Diebenkorn, Large Bright Blue, 1980
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William T. Wiley, Detail Study from the Bright Side, 1977 - 1988
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William Hogarth - A Rake's Progress: "Gold, Thou bright Son of Phaebus,. . ." Plate 6 of 8 1735 engraving University of California, Berkeley Art Museum British
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Ape Junior, "John Bright", from Vanity Fair Supplement No. 565, April 6, 1889, circa 1912
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A. F. Lydon, Bright lily of the wave..., plate opposite page 21 in the book Gems from the Poets (London: Groombridge and Sons, [ca. 1860]), ca. 1860
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Winslow Homer, The Bright Side, after Winslow Homer"s painting of 1865 (1979.7.56), published in the magazine Our Young Folks, July, 1866, p. 396, 1866
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The Resurrection
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Tunic or poncho Chimu Late Intermediate, A.D. 1000-1476 North Coast, Peru Wool slit and dovetailed
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Landscape with Cottage and Figures
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Times Square / Broadway Composition
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Myles Birket Foster, Thee, bright-hair"d Vesta, long of yore..", second etching for the poem Il Penseroso, which is illustration 21 on page 15 in the book Milton"s L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (Lond
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Reconciliation of King Henry III and Henry of Navarre 1628 oil on panel Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Flemish
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The Annunciation
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Two Dancers, 1873 Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)Dark brown wash and white gouache on bright pink
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Henry Cousins, Henry Leverage, 19th century
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Henry Wolf, Portrait of the Engraver Henry Wolf, 1905
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Henry William Bunbury, Falstaff reproved by King Henry - Shakespeare - Henry VI, Part 2, Act V, Scene 8., 18th - 19th century
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Henry Wolf, Portrait of Mrs. Henry, 19th - 20th century
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Henry Wolf, Henry Irving, 19th - 20th century
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Henry Wolf, Henry Irving at Home, 19th - 20th century
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Henry Wolf, Henry Mills Alden, 19th - 20th century
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Henry Wolf, Portrait of Henry Irving, 19th - 20th century
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John Henry Robinson, Henry Somerset, First, 18th - 19th century
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W. & D. Downey, Sir Henry Irving as Cardinal Wolsey in Shakespeare"s Henry VIII, 1892
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Paul Revere II, American, 1734-1818 Teapot United States, Massachusetts, (Boston), about 1795-1800 Silver 15.4 x
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George Bright, 1726-1805 Desk and bookcase United States, Massachusetts, (Boston), 1770-85 Mahogany; white pine 252.7
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Charles Henry Jeens, Mr. Hackett as Falstaff in King Henry IV., 19th century
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Henry Meyer, The Right Honorable Henry Robert Stewart, 18th - 19th century
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Pieter van der Banck, King Henry V Of Monmouth, Son Of Henry IV (1413-1422), 17th century
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Pieter van der Banck, King Henry VIII, Son Of Henry VII (1509-1547), 17th century
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Polonaise carpet Persian Safavid, probably early 17th century Iran (Persia), (Isfahan or Kashan) Cotton warp,
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William Henry Bartlett, The Christian in Palestine by Henry Stebbing (London: George Virtue, [ca. 1830]), 1830
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Pieter van der Banck, King Henry II Of Anjou, Grandson Of Henry I. (1154-1189), 17th century
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Pectoral Egyptian Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21, 1075-945 B.C. Egypt, (Thebes) Bright blue faience with
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Multiple Artists, The Pacific Tourist by Henry T. Williams (New York: Henry T. Williams, 1878), 1878

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: Jeroen Allart: Clear, Simple and Colourful
Landscape painting tends to evoke associations with a past era but these are instantly banished by the first glimpse of Jeroen Allart’s work. His landscape paintings are invariably composed of a number of completely stylised elements – a field, th...
Sheffield Galleries and Museum Trust, Graves Art Gallery: Jeremy Moon: A Retrospective Exhibition
He made large, bright, abstract canvasses of great simplicity and ingenuity using flat blocks of intense, pure color in regular, geometric shapes and patterns. His work, however, had ready wit and playfulness that gives it a startling contemporary...
Somerset House: Paul Signac: Travels in France
From the sunlit shores around Saint Tropez to the ports of France, to which he devoted a series of views towards the end of his life, Signac captures the spirit of summer in an ideal Impressionist medium....
Locco Ritoro Gallery: George Oommen: Visions of Kerala
Across the Charles River, in Harvard Square, George Oommen: Sacred Places will be on view until October 12. These paintings echo an earlier series called, The Sacred Places Within You. These color-field works, created with muted, numinous hues, ...
Turkish American Association's Art Gallery: Kaynak Tumer: Still-lifes of Turkish Culture
The composition is usually set on a bright, handmade tablecloth or table. Thus, the colors of local handicrafts are reflected on canvas. Also, Tümer holds first rank in Still Life at an international painting competition, Access to Active A...
Hunt Club Community Art Centre: Studio Space Available
Interested artists should contact: Jeanette on email: hclub@access.net.au or phone (03) 9363 3877 to be considered or to make an appointment to see the spaces available. ...
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: ORCHIDS IN GOLD BY MICKEY NAX
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Corcoran Gallery of Art: Icing on the Cake: Selected Prints by Wayne Thiebaud
Though best known for his richly painted canvases, Thiebaud also has created a significant body of prints. Since 1964 the artist has produced mor...
Hudson River Museum: Fun City: Celebrating the Life of Ralph Fasanella
The exhibit will examine different topics from Fasanella's oeuvre. These include scenes of Westchester County, baseball games, street festivals, political rallies and election campaigns. A socially-conscious artist, Fasanella's works a...
Bartley Nees Project: Monique Jansen, Esther Leigh and Sara Hughes
Their paintings, which show a delight in process, explore the effect, affect and impact of repetitive patterns. Entering the territory of op art and even pop art they are at once ethereal and sensual, transparent and dense, serious and light-he...
Austin Museum of Art: Salomon Huerta: Paintings
While his riveting works recall the bright palettes and streamlined compositions of earlier California painters Richard Diebenkorn and Edward Ruscha, Huerta reinvents conventional elements of Pop art, Color Field painting, and portraitu...
Textile Museum of Canada: Irene Avaalaaqiaq: Myth and Reality
Avaalaaqiaq is deeply committed to preserving her heritage and making it accessible to an international audience. Much of her work focuses on Inuit legends passed along by her grandmother, as well as a world view derived from oral tradition and ex...
Frye Art Museum: Rie Muñoz: One Hundred Original Watercolors
Born in Los Angeles, Muñoz began painting scenes of Alaskan native life in the 1950s when she first arrived in Juneau. During a varied career, Muñoz created murals for the University of Alaska and the Alaska State Library, wrote and illu...
World Fine Art Gallery: Holy Moments - Part 1, Transitioning from Love to Death & God
The new show will feature a collection of paintings on Death, God and Faith. There will be two installation pieces. The first one called the "Trouble Bubble", a modern day confessional, and the "The G Spot" (G stands for God). She uses bright c...
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane: Fresh Cut 2001: Work by Annie Hogan, Janice Peacock, Gareth Donnelly, Lucy Griggs, Jose Da Silva, Simone Hine, Amanda Pound, Caroline Southwood, Chris Handran, Georgina Berkman, Jewell MacKenzie
Fresh Cut 2001 provides a snapshot of the continuing enthusiasm there is for contemporary art. For what stands out about this years exhibition is the artists' fascination and delight with looking and discovering different ways of experiencing o...
ARTSPACE, Auckland: Bright Paradise: Tony De Lautour, Ian McDonald, Paul Morrison, Paul Seitsema
Curated by Allan Smith, Bright Paradise tracks narratives of exploration, discovery, travel, leisure, image collections and technologies within a matrix of loss and longing. The show includes around 30 artists, with 10 of these coming fro...
Michael Gibson Gallery: David Urban: The Constructor
Born in Toronto in 1966, David Urban studied poetry and painting at York University, earning a BFA in 1989. He received a master's degree in English Literature and creative writing under the direction of Alistair MacLeod in 1991 and a second mast...
Indianapolis Museum of Art: The Fabric of Moroccan Life
These anonymous masterworks, which are part of a long oral tradition that has been passed down through generations of Moroccan women, are distinct and varied in their color, design and technique. Authentic Moroccan jewelry and costumes enhance the...
APT Gallery: Sodium Blindness
Movement through city after dark is central to Sarah Conway’s video work: a woman walks through unevenly lit empty London streets. This everyday activity takes on a cinematic menace as the camera tracks her route. Helen Couchman also takes the cit...
Telfair Art Museum: ROBERT GWATHMEY: MASTER PAINTER
Gwathmey's signature style is easily recognized. Influenced by Pablo Picasso, Gwathmey adapted the Cubist style for his narrative expression. Space is flattened into large areas of unmodulated color, as seen i...
Portland Museum of Art: The Grand Moving PANORAMA of Pilgrim's Progress
In its entirety, Panorama of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress was an eight-foot high by 850-foot long canvas mounted on wooden rollers that unfurled the painting. Each viewing of the panorama wa...
Galerie Vee: Art in the Party: David Levi, Boyd Sugiki, Janusz Pozniak, James Mongrain, Pamina Traylor and Bandhu Dunham
Davidís Levi's glass studio produces hand-blown, decorative, tabletop glassware, in bright, luminous colors, with classic modern silhouettes, and a friendly, playful feel. "Inspired by the Venetian tradition of goblet making, I strive for...
Undervaerket Art Center: Asbjorn Lonvig: Monumental Sculpture Dedicated to Red Cross Refugees
As Asborjn Lonvig states,My idea i...
Landings Gallery: Celia Washington: Unquiet Thoughts
About Celia Washington's work: "Her evocatively coloured and boldly drawn figurative work, like that of many other Scottish artists, reflects a deep fascination in poetic, psychological myth and symbolic legend." (Bill Hare - Galleries) "...
Kabat Wrobel Gallery: Holy Moments - Part 1, Transitioning from Love to Death and God: Work by Kate Hollett
The new show will feature a collection of paintings on Death, God and Faith. There will be two installation pieces. The first one called the Trouble Bubble, a modern day confessional, and the The G Spot (G stands for God). She uses bright colou...
Fuller Museum of Craft: Ricky Bernstein: Kitchen Dreams
Bernstein pokes fun at, and commiserates with, characters wrapped up in the dramas of daily life. One man plays tug of war with his dog over a shoe, another tries to untangle himself from a telephone cord, and a woman looks in despair at a clock a...
Kantor Gallery: Kenny Scharf: Groovenian Drawings
Hence the name, the Groovenians live in the “groove of life”. The main characters, Jet and Glindy, begin in a bland town called Jeepers and flee to Groovenia in search for ultimate joy.  Like us, they soon find out that the realities and responsib...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Rural England Through a Victorian Lens: Benjamin Bricknell Turner
Known for his beautiful early photographs of rural England, Turner was one of the first, and remains one of the most respected, of all British photographers. Between 1852 and 1854 he compiled 60 of his photographs under the title Photographic Vi...
Hudson River Museum: Living with Landscapes: Paintings from Private Collections

Among the paintings in Living with Landscapes is Homer Dodge Martin's oil painting A Wilderness Pool, a classic Hudson River School scene that shows Martin's interest in the dramatic elements of wilderness scenery. The work's vertical format empha...
Design Museum, at University of California, Davis: Beyond the Rainbow: Maguey Textiles of Guatemala
Curator Kathy Rousso will hold a free hands-on workshop on Saturday July 23 from 9 am to 5 pm. She will be demonstrating how to create small net bags using similar techniques to those displayed in the exhibition. All ages are welcomed. Please call...

Further Artwork and Information:

Henry Bright Online
Virtual Gallery - Landscape with Windmill
Bragg, William Henry - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
Huxley, Thomas Henry - Bright Sparcs Archival and Heritage Sources
Henry Bright Weir
Henry Bright
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About Saxmundham - Henry Bright, Painter of the Norwich School
I293: Henry BRIGHT (29 DEC 1602 - 9 OCT 1686)
Henry BRIGHT/Anna GOLDSTONE

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