Susan Hinckley Bradley

Susan Hinckley Bradley
Born
Susan Greenough Hinckley

(1851-05-15)15 May 1851
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Died11 June 1929(1929-06-11) (aged 78)
Boston, Massachusetts, US
EducationSchool of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Known forPainting
Spouse
Leverett Bradley
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(m. 1879)​

Susan Hinckley Bradley (15 May 1851 – 11 June 1929) was an American painter known for her watercolor landscapes and portrait drawings.

Early years

On 15 May 1851, Susan Greenough Hinckley[1][2] was born in Boston, to Samuel Lyman Hinckley (1810–1871) and Anne Cutler (née Parker) Hinckley (1813–1898). Her paternal grandparents were Jonathan Huntington Lyman and Sophia (née Hinckley) Lyman. Her maternal grandparents were Samuel Dunn Parker and Elizabeth (née Mason) Parker, the daughter of U.S. Senator Jonathan Mason. Her aunt, Sally Outram Lyman, was married to agricultural writer Richard Lamb Allen.[3] Her younger brother was painter Robert Cutler Hinckley.[4]

She began her art studies in Boston at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, studying with Frederic Crowninshield, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, as well as with Abbott Thayer, William Merritt Chase, John Henry Twachtman, and Edward Darley Boit in Rome.[5][6]

Work

Her paintings can be found in Harvard University, Harvard Art Museum, Fogg Museum, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, and in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as well as in numbers private collections.[7]

She exhibited a painting, Mount Monadnock, at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.[8]

She married a minister, Leverett Bradley, in 1879 and served as the editor of his Civil War memoir, Leverett Bradley: A Soldier-Boy's Letters, 1862-1865, A Man's Work in the Ministry, privately printed in Boston, 1905.[9] She died in Boston on 11 June 1929.[10][11]

Oriental Still Life by Susan Hinckley Bradley

References

  1. ^ Dwight, Benjamin W. (1871). The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass. Vol. II. Albany, New York: Joel Munsell. p. 1204. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
  2. ^ Loomis, Elias (1880). The Descendants (by the Female Branches) of Joseph Loomis. Vol. I. New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor. p. 355. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
  3. ^ True, Alfred Charles (1927). "Allen, Richard Lamb". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  4. ^ Petteys, Chris (1985). Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co. p. 90.
  5. ^ Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986, p. 95
  6. ^ Petteys 1985, p. 90.
  7. ^ "SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System". siris-artinventories.si.edu.
  8. ^ Nichols, Dr. Kathleen L. "United States Women Painters: 1893 Exposition--page 1". arcadiasystems.org.
  9. ^ Bradley, Leverett; Bradley, Susan Hinckley (1905). Leverett Bradley: A Soldier-boy's Letters, 1862-1865; a Man's Work in the Ministry. Priv. print. – via Internet Archive. Susan Hinckley Bradley .
  10. ^ "Susan Hinckley Greenough Bradley". AskArt. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  11. ^ Kovinick, Phil; Yoshiki-Kovinick, Marian (1998). "Susan H. Bradley". An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West. University of Texas Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-0292790636. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
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