Frederick Lee Bridell (baptised 5 December 1830 – 20 August 1863) was a popular painter of 19th century Britain, initially as a portrait artist.

He gained favour with Elizabeth Barrett Browning who entertained him and his wife (Eliza Bridell Fox, a fellow artist), for their wedding meal at Bocca di Leone, Rome in 1859.

Rose, in two letters to the Southampton Times in 1888, provided detail of Bridell's early years and his subsequent apprenticeship to a picture restorer, Edwin Holder.

At the age of eighteen years, William Bridle, had taken up portrait painting and was signing his work, Frederick Lee Bridell.

Within two years, the artist had acquired a patron, James Wolff, a shipping magnate of Bevois Mount.

The essence of Bridell's work is the depiction of vastness in nature, large areas of landscape within which light moves through the scene, highlighting form and shadow.

The Temple of Venus, Bridell hoped would one day hang between the Turners and Claudes in the National Gallery.

Writing Bridell's obituary,[6] Sir Theodore Martin stated, ‘Had he lived, he must have earned a European reputation; and numerous and fine as are the works he has left, his early death is, in the interests of Art, deeply to be deplored.