biography of Mary White BIDWELL (1827-1903)

Birth place: East Hartford, CT

Addresses: Hartford, CT (c.1865-73); Brooklyn, NY (winters, 1874-82)

Profession: Portrait and landscape painter, modeller in clay

Studied: first drawing lessons in East Hartford, CT c.1858; later with Frederick S. Jewett, Hartford, CT.

Exhibited: NAD, 1866-67 (landscapes); Brooklyn AA, 1874-82

Comments: After 1873, she appears to have maintained a studio in Hartford, wintered Brooklyn, and spent some time in Glastonbury, CT. She also traveled to Florida and the Bahamas in the early 1880s.

Sources: G&W; Naylor, NAD; French, Art and Artists in Connecticut, 162; Art in Conn.: Early Days to the Gilded Age