1885-1967. Frederick Carter, painter and etcher born, was in Bradford. He abandoned an early career as a civil engineer and surveyor to study art in Paris, 1904, Antwerp, 1909-10 and in London 1908-11. In 1910-1916, and again in 1922, he was elected A.R.E. (Associate of the Royal Society of Etchers and…
John Busby (1928 – 2015) painter, sculptor, wildlife illustrator and teacher, was born in Bradford and was educated at Ilkley Grammar School. His father, Eric Busby, helped to run the family firm of Busbys’ department store in Bradford, and on retirement created the Goosewell Gallery in Menston, which helped launch the careers of…
Tom Clifton Butterfield (1856 – 1937) was born in Keighley into a working class family: his father was a wool-sorter, and his mother a former domestic servant. Tom started work at a young age and he followed the footsteps of his maternal grand-father by becoming as a gardener. But he was talented in…
(David) Francis Butterfield, (1905-1968), abstract painter, was born in Bradford and studied part-time at Bradford Art School, whilst working as a wool stapler in a local mill. The abstract art of Ben Nicolson had a major influence on Francis’s work and he began to experiment with his own style,…
Thomas Bushby (1861 – 1918) was a painter and lithographer, born at Eccleshill, near Bradford. His maternal grandfather was Jeremiah Fennell, a monumental sculptor, from Harewood and Thomas revealed a talent for drawing from an early age. He was employed as a nine year old in a local woollen mill and…
Abraham Broadbent (1868-1919) sculptor, stonemason, stone carver and architectural sculptor, was born in Shipley, the son of stonemason. He lived at Myrtle Place, Saltaire, until he moved to London in the mid 1890s to study at the South London Technical Art School in Lambeth, where he was awarded a £50…
John Bradley (1787-1844) was a Keighley artist who taught drawing to the Bronte children and their father, Patrick. .He was born in Keighley and was a house and sign painter, but sketched and painted the post-industrial scene in and around the town. By the 1820s he had become the best…
Sculptural and decorative ceramics artist, and photographer, Kath Bonson lives in the Cullingworth area of Bradford. Kath graduated from Bradford College in 2010 with a first class honours in Fine Art and in the same year was awarded Licentiate Membership, with Merit, by the Society of Designer Craftsmen. …
,Stanley (Stan) Boardman (1915 – 1996) was a self-taught jobbing sign-writer But in his late fifties, in a fifteen month burst of creativity, he produced a series of distinctive cartoon-style paintings based on his 1920’s childhood in the Fell Lane area of Keighley. Stan was born in Maidstone, Kent. He was one…
Doug Binder, figurative painter, was born in Bradford in 1941. Between 1957-61 he studied at commercial design at Bradford School of Art, but quickly realised that his interests lay more with abstract painting than with commercial art. In 1958, aged 17, he rented a studio on Thornton Road, Bradford…
