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Private moments such as worship are rare in Bridgman’s oeuvre, as he is better known for his scenes of modern daily life to which he turned in his later career. The Prayer is also distinguished by its rigorous, academic style of execution; painted when the artist was thirty, the influence of his teacher Jean-Léon Gerome is still strongly in evidence, in contrast to the more impressionistic technique he would adopt from the 1880s. #Art #Paintings Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Islamic Golden Age, Orientalist Art, Orientalist Paintings, Islamic Civilization, Arab Art, Muslim Art, Middle Eastern Art, Turkish Ottoman

Private moments such as worship are rare in Bridgman’s oeuvre, as he is better known for his scenes of modern daily life to which he turned in his later career. The Prayer is also distinguished by its rigorous, academic style of execution; painted when the artist was thirty, the influence of his teacher Jean-Léon Gerome is still strongly in evidence, in contrast to the more impressionistic technique he would adopt from the 1880s. #Art #Paintings

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