James Bard (1815-1897)

A self-taught artist, James Bard began a partnership with his brother John Bard, painting the steamships and smaller sailing vessels in and around the Hudson River and New York City harbor. This partnership lasted through 1850, at which time shipbuilding experienced a dramatic increase, which guaranteed James Bard a successful career as a solo marine artist.  He was given the chance to depict many of the most impressive steamboats of the time. 

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His work can now be found in the Brooklyn Museum, the Mariners’ Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, and in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, among other institutions.   The National Museum of American Art held a retrospective exhibition in 1987, which traveled to the Mariners’ Museum and the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown.