Frederick Henry Brigden

Frederick Henry (Fred) Brigden (April09, 1871 1956), also known as F. H. Brigden, was a landscape painter in oils and watercolour, illustrator, and commercial engraver.

Career Born in London, England, Brigden came to Canada with his parents in 1872 and with them, settled in Toronto. In 1877, his father Frederick Brigden Senior founded the Toronto Engraving Company with Henry Beale.

In 1898, Fred Brigden became the art director of the Toronto Engraving Company which in 1910 changed its name to Brigdens Limited. In 1912 he visited the Albright Art Gallery, today's Albright-Knox Gallery, in Buffalo, New York, where he saw the Exhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Art and post-Impressionist and expressionist landscape paintings. It was the same exhibition which J. E. H. MacDonald and Lawren Harris saw and were inspired by in 1913. and the first elected President of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC/SCPA).

Brigden joined the Ontario Society of Artists in 1898 and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1939 and is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario. He died on a sketching trip at Bolton, Ontario in 1956.