Fidelia Bridges
Illustration inspired by Oliver Ingraham Lay, Portrait of Fidelia Bridges, pre 1890, Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Fidelia Bridges (1834-1923) was an American artist whose oil and watercolor works focused primarily on nature and botanical details. Exhibiting at National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the 1893 World’s Columbia Exposition, she also worked as an illustrator, published in books of poetry and Scribner’s Monthly. Her childhood home is now part of the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, MA.