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| Bridges, Charles |
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| fl. 16831740, English portrait painter, active (c.1735c.1740) in Virginia. He was the most skillful practitioner of aristocratic portrait painting in the South. Among the works attributed to him are Mann Page the Second (Coll. of William and Mary) and Maria Taylor Byrd (Metropolitan Mus.). |
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