[1] In 1877, his father Frederick Brigden Senior founded the Toronto Engraving Company with Henry Beale.

[2] In 1914, he opened a branch of Brigden's in Winnipeg and gave employment to such artists as Charles Comfort and many others such as Caven Atkins, Fritz Brandtner, and Nicholas Raphael de Grandmaison.

Brigden painted in a traditional English watercolour style until about 1906 when he made his first trip to the north country of Canada when his work became brightened and became more decisive.

[1] He visited galleries in London, Manchester and Brussels in 1910, and during the summer, Brigden studied with John F. Carlson in Woodstock, New York.

In 1924 on a business trip to England he examined with interest a portfolio of original watercolours of John Sell Cotman.