Gibeon Elden Bradbury (1833–1904) was a painter from

Buxton Buxton is a spa town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England. It is England's highest market town, sited at some above sea level.Saco River The Saco River (Abenaki: ''Sαkóhki'') is a river in northeastern New Hampshire and southwestern Maine in the United States. It drains a rural area of of forests and farmlands west and southwest of Portland, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean ...

. The son of Nathaniel Scamman Bradbury and Lucy Sawyer Bradbury, Gibeon spent most of his life in Salmon Falls. Bradbury began a successful business in

Portland Portland most commonly refers to: * Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States * Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ...

, where he ornamented many types of vehicles. As his business became more successful, he began what he is now most famous for: painting. There is also a rumor that Bradbury was known by

Herman Melville Herman Melville ( born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are ''Moby-Dick'' (1851); ''Typee'' (1846), a rom ...

, as in Melville's book ''

Moby-Dick ''Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'' is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship ''Pequod'', for revenge against Moby Dick, the giant whi ...

'' Melville makes a reference to "the painter of the saco" meaning the one who painted the Saco River, which is what Gibeon painted most often. http://www.sacomuseum.org/library/GibeonBradbury.html

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19th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century American painters 1833 births 1904 deaths People from Buxton, Maine Painters from Maine 19th-century American male artists 20th-century American male artists {{US-painter-stub