Brief Biography-Frederick Arthur Bridgman was from Tuskegee, Alabama. When he was a teenager, his family moved to Boston, where he took lessons in drawing and design. At the age of nineteen, Bridgeman moved to France. After being tutored by the American artist Robert Wylie for two years, he entered the workshop of Jean-Leon Gérôme, an acclaimed Orientalist artist. He travelled to North Africa four years later, setting up a studio in Biskra, Algeria. After long journeys in the region, Bridgman published Winters in Algeria about his exploits. He subsequently undertook one such journey along the Nile with fellow American artist Charles Sprague Pearce.
He exhibited at the American Art Gallery in New York in the late eighties and became an officer of the Legion d’Honneur. His works were on varied subjects and met with success in America and England.
Bridgman spent his last years in Normandy, France.