Bradley Stevens

Bradley Stevens was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in 1954 and raised in Westport, Connecticut. In 1972, he attended George Washington University in Washington, DC where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1976, and a Masters of Fine Arts in 1979. In addition to his formal art education, Stevens spent five years copying over three hundred Old Master paintings at the National Gallery of Art. In 1982, he was invited to teach drawing and anatomy at his alma mater; in 1988 he began teaching drawing and portrait painting at Georgetown University as well. He remained a faculty member of both institutions until the year 2000. In his career of over 25 years, Bradley Stevens has earned a reputation as one of America's leading realist painters. His classical training and diverse talents enable him to excel in the genres of both portrait and landscape painting. Stevens also paints figurative cityscapes and interiors. He frequently works on commission, and many of the commissioned paintings are of a grand scale for public spaces. Stevens has painted the portraits of judges, senators, philanthropists, chairmen and university deans. Among his numerous patrons are the family of Senator John D. Rockefeller, IV, Glenn L. Martin, Dr. Robert Heyssel (President of Johns Hopkins), Senator Jennings Randloph, and Sarah Tomerlin Lee, world-renowned interior designer. Bradley Stevens has reproduce historical portraits for the White House, Monticello, U.S. Department of State, American Embassy in Paris, and the National Portrait Gallery. In 2002, the Smithsonian Institution commissioned him to reproduce the famous Lansdowne portrait of George Washington. His landscape paintings are also highly sought after, and are included in such prestigious corporate and private collections as Bell Atlantic, FannieMae, Holland & Knight, and AARP.

Bradley Stevens Images:
Annapolis Morning
Encroaching Shadows
Vashon Light