Arthur Bambridge

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Arthur Leopold Bambridge (born June 16, 1861 in Windsor (Berkshire) , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ; † November 27, 1923 in Leigh-on-Sea (Essex), United Kingdom) was a football player for the English national team and a portrait painter for the Düsseldorf team School .

family

Bambridge was the sixth child of the British photographer William Bambridge (1820–1879) and his wife Sophia, née Thorington, born in Windsor. There his father, who had been a teacher and missionary in the Te Waimate Mission in New Zealand in the 1840s , had held the position of photographer for Queen Victoria since 1854 . Five of William Bambridges' six children were sons, all of them avid footballers. The daughter Sophie Esther (* 1846) was the third child. The children received their education at St Mark's School in Windsor. The eldest son, William Samuel Bambridge (* 1842), became a music professor, composer and organist at Marlborough College . The second son, George Frederick (* 1844), became secretary of the British Prince Alfred . His son George Louis St Clair Bambridge (1892–1942), Arthur's nephew, in the diplomatic service since 1922, married Elsie, the daughter of Rudyard Kipling , in 1924 .

Career as a football player

The three youngest sons of the photographer William Bambridge, Ernest (1848–1917), Charles (1858–1935) and Arthur, played for Swifts Football Club in Slough and for the English national football team , Ernest for England only in one game, Charles in 18 , Arthur in three games. Arthur's football career began at Windsor FC and took him through Upton Park FC to Swifts FC, Clapham Rovers FC, Corinthian FC and Berkshire FA. He celebrated the debut for the England national team as a left defender (left back) in the game against Wales in Blackburn on 26 February 1881. This game was for the English with 0: 1. In a second game of the English selection against Wales Bambridge took part two years later on February 3, 1883, this time with his brother Charles, who played on the right, while Arthur defended the left. The English won this game in the oval of London-Kennington 5-0. On February 23, 1884, the brothers played against the Irish national team in Belfast . This game, in which Charles scored two goals and Arthur one, the English won 8-1. The three Bambridge brothers were the only trio of brothers in history to play football for England.

Career as a painter

As early as 1881, when Arthur Bambridge lived with his brothers Ernest and Charles and service staff in a shared apartment in London-Battersea, he was enrolled as an art student. Due to an injury, Arthur Bambridge ended his football career in 1884 and decided to study painting in Düsseldorf , possibly encouraged by Karl Rudolf Sohn , who worked as a portrait painter at the court of Windsor from 1882 to 1886 . From 1884 to 1885 Bambridge was a student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Hugo Crola and Adolf Schill . From 1888 to 1890 Bambridge was there also a member of the artists' association Malkasten . In 1890 the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft also listed Brambridge as its member. The Düsseldorf Eiskellerberg was his studio address at that time. In the same year he had his apartment at Schadowstrasse 36 . From Düsseldorf Bambridge regularly visited the Willingshausen painters' colony .

In 1891 he married in Kiel - Friedrichsort Anna Charlotte Caroline Siebert, daughter of the businessman Jacob Wilhelm Siebert († 1851) from Frankfurt am Main . The couple moved to London-Kensington (57 Bedford Gardens), where Bambridge worked as an artist. In 1901 and 1902 it was registered in London-Fulham with its children Frederick and Emily Louise and two domestic workers. Later recordings recorded Bambridge, whose marriage had been divorced on June 6, 1904, as single, most recently in Rochford, Essex.

Works (selection)

  • Two portraits of the British Prince Alfred von Saxe-Coburg-Gotha , Royal Marines Museum, Portsmouth , and Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (Devon)
  • View of Ashby de la Launde, the seat of the King family, Lincolnshire , 1895, Watercolor, 37 × 54 cm (14.6 × 21.3 in.)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data sheet Arthur Leopold Bambridge in the portal englandfootballonline.com , accessed on April 5, 2015
  2. ^ Anne M. Lyden: A Royal Passion. Queen Victoria and Photography . Getty Publications, Los Angeles 2014, ISBN 978-1-60606-155-8 , pp. 115 ff. ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ See article William Bambridge in the English language Wikipedia
  4. ↑ See article George Bambridge in the English language Wikipedia
  5. ↑ See article Arthur Bambridge in the English language Wikipedia
  6. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel, Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb, p. 426
  7. ↑ Inventory of the Malkasten Artists' Association , accessed on April 5, 2015
  8. ^ Members of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft in 1890 , website in the portal wladimir-aichelburg.at , accessed on April 5, 2015
  9. ↑ Address book of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf for the year 1890 , website in the portal 505083.forumromanum.com , accessed on April 5, 2015
  10. ↑ Frankfurt main cemetery
  11. ↑ Berkshire Chronicle , Saturday November 21, 1891
  12. ↑ The London Standard , Wednesday, March 10, 1897
  13. ↑ St. James' Gazette / London Daily News, Thursday November 12, 1903
  14. ^ Douglas Lamming: An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who , ISBN 978-0-90703-393-6 , Hutton Press Ltd., Beverley / England 1990
  15. ↑ Prince Alfred's secretary was George Frederick Bambridge, Arthur's brother, born in 1844.
personal data
SURNAME Bambridge, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bambridge, Arthur Leopold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British football player and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Windsor (Berkshire) , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1923
Place of death Leigh-on-Sea (Essex), United Kingdom