John Bradley (d. 1844)

[3] John Bradley was a native of Keighley, a town in Yorkshire some 4 miles (6.4 km) north east of Haworth where the Brontës had settled into the parsonage by 1820.

[2] His work was exhibited at events sponsored by the Royal Northern Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in the 1820s.

In 1807 he made a sketch of a Knight Templar Tracing Board for Plains of Mamre Preceptory No.89 which was a cartoon for the famous Masonic Boards at Bottoms originally painted on to the shutters of The Freemasons' Arms and now on the walls of the Bottoms Lodge Room.

[6] The Reverend Patrick Brontë, a member of the Institute's library, engaged Bradley as drawing-master for his children Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their brother Branwell in the years 1829–1830.

[7] Bradley emigrated to the United States in July 1831 to pursue a career as a portrait painter in Philadelphia, but the venture was not a success.