John Bradley

John Bradley (1787 – 1844) was a British painter from Keighley in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was a founder-member of the Keighley Mechanics Institute and was engaged as a drawing-master for the Brontë children in 1829–30. He should not be confused with John Bradley, a British artist active in the New York area in the 1830s and 1840s, or John Bradley of Pall Mall, London (1786-1843), a printmaker and portraitist. Life and career John Bradley was a native of Keighley, a town in Yorkshire some north east of Haworth where the Brontës had settled into the parsonage by 1820. Bradley worked as a house and sign painter, "but he preferred to call himself an artist". His work was exhibited at events sponsored by the Royal Northern Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in the 1820s.