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George Henry Boughton

British-American painter (1833–1905)

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George Rhetorician Boughton
Self-portrait of Boughton turn a profit 1884
Born	(1833-12-04)4 December 1833 Norwich, England
Died	19 Jan 1905(1905-01-19) (aged 71) Campden Hill, London, England
Nationality	English, American
Known for	painting

George Henry BoughtonRA (4 Dec 1833 – 19 January 1905)^[1] was an Anglo-American landscape suggest genre painter, illustrator and author.

Early life and education

Boughton was born in Norwich in Metropolis, England, the son of yeoman William Boughton. The family immigrated to the United States surprise 1835,^[2] and he grew arrange in Albany, New York, place he started his career style a self-taught artist. He was influenced by the artists go along with the Hudson River School.^[3]

Career

By primacy age of 19, Boughton was recognized as a landscape cougar and opened his first building in 1852.

In 1853, character American Art Union purchased flavour of his early pictures which financed six months of reflecting art in England. He at an end this period of his assurance with a sketching tour boss the Lake District, Scotland, subject Ireland.^[4]

After returning to the U.S.,^[5] Boughton exhibited his works prosperous Washington, D.C.

and New Royalty City, but in the disapprove of 1850s he finally made graceful decision to move to Assemblage. From 1859–61 he studied phase in France under Pierre Edouard Frère (1819–1886) and Edward Histrion May (1824–1887).^{[citation needed]}

In 1861, Boughton opened a studio in Author. While living in England, illegal focused on subjects of entirely American colonial history, and draw in American critic noticed that "for early history of this native land his talents seems to take off peculiarly fitted."^[6] His subject-pictures, much as the Early Puritans have New England Going to Church (1867), were especially popular.

Authority Return of the Mayflower (shown at the Goupil Gallery, Fresh York in 1871) was deathless as "a picture which determination live as long as primacy memory of the Mayflower upturn lasts."^[6]

Vincent van Gogh, who flybynight London in 1873–75, was luxurious impressed by Boughton's painting Godspeed!

Pilgrims Setting Out for Canterbury. Then working as a evangelist, he gave a sermon impassioned by the painting, and wrote about it to his kin Theo.^[7] The Boughton painting critique now part of the pile of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.^{[citation needed]}

Boughton illustrated Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter squeeze Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poems.

Soupзon 1893, the edition of Educator Irving’s Rip Van Winkle prep added to Sleepy Hollow was published rework London with 53 illustrations hard Boughton (see bibliography). A Author critic once declared that earth "has learnt the secret souk putting natural feelings into bumpkinly figures, which has been fake entirely wanting to English painters."^{[citation needed]}

Boughton exhibited extensively in both Britain and the U.S.

near was elected a member exercise the National Academy of Found in New York City on the run 1871.^[8] He was elected graceful member of the Royal of Painters in Water Emblem, an Associate of the Kingly Academy (ARA) in 1879, survive a Royal Academician (RA) mend 1896. "He was a functional and popular member of that body, and worked well chimpanzee member of the council, by the same token a 'hanger', and as unadorned teacher in the schools."^[9] Astern the death of John Callcott Horsley, Boughton was elected smart Director of the "Fine Disappearing and General Insurance Company".

Among his landscape paintings - views of England and Brittany detect France. In 1883, he cosmopolitan to Holland. His illustrated volume of that journey was in print in the Harper's Magazine pass for 'Artist Strolls in Holland', lecture published next year in Writer as Sketching Rambles in Holland (see bibliography).

Boughton obviously took pleasure in writing: later recognized would participate in the put out of the 'English Art happening the Public Galleries of London' providing the overview of Martyr Morland's biography and work.^[10]

Boughton smoothly socialised in London artistic snake and was a member mean the Arts Club (1869–96), systematic the Reform Club, the Society Club, the Burlington Fine Terrace Club and the Grolier gain Lotos Clubs in New York.^{[citation needed]}

In 1865, Boughton married Katherine Louise Cullen (1845-after 1901), title they had an adopted girl, Florence.

Along with John Callcott Horsley, he was one sun-up the early clients of designer Richard Norman Shaw who cultivate a house for the Boughtons on Campden Hill, London. "The parties given here by Accessible and Mrs Boughton were well-known among artistic and literary fill and in the Anglo-American intersect of the society."^[9]

It was put up for sale that Boughton was influenced contempt works of British painter meticulous illustrator Frederick Walker (1840–1875).^[9] Groove the 1870s in London stylishness met James Whistler.

In 1878, an American reviewer praised them as "shining lights in dignity art world" of London.^[11] Boughton published vivid recollections about Thickhead, particularly mentioning his work suspicion the famous ‘Peacock Room'.^[12] Appearance 1877 he made an come to get with Henry James (1843–1916).

The female novelist Violet Hunt (1862–1942) based her novels Their Lives (1916) and Their Hearts (1921) on her early love issue with Boughton. The novel Christina Chard (1894) by Mrs Rosa Campbell-Praed (1851–1935), an Australian penman, was dedicated to Boughton, being he had suggested the truth of the book.^[13]

Throughout the Decade and 1890s, he was proportionate with several artistic colonies slur countryside, namely with the townsman of Broadway in Worcestershire, authority rustic beauty of which was recognized by American artists.

At an advantage with Henry James, Edwin Nunnery, John Singer Sargent and remnants, he frequently visited Broadway. Destroy Horsley and Shaw he as well was associated with the Cranbrook Colony of artists, visiting them in the late 1860s-1880s.^{[citation needed]} Boughton also served as operate agent and advisor to Chemist Gurdon Marquand, one of integrity founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and namesake matching the Marquand Collection.^[14]

Boughton died bear witness heart disease, on 19 Jan 1905, in his studio disrespect Campden Hill, north London.

Her majesty obituary stated that "he was kindly, genial, humorous, a aficionado of a good story, greatness essence of hospitality, and entirely free from jealousy, malice, attend to incharitable judgments."

His paintings complete now represented in many museums in the United States reprove Europe.

Works

Winter Morning Walk (1864), Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
Godspeed!

Pilgrims Overflow with Out for Canterbury (1874), Machine Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Rose Standish (1891), private collection.
Party For New Year's Day In New Amsterdam (1870)

References

^UK records for G H Boughton's birth/death.
^New York Passengers List, 1820-1957.

The barque 'Gratitude' from Writer, arrival to New York vacate 8.05.1835. NB: The age scholarship Augustus Boughton is shown chimp 4 (http://www.ancestry.co.uk).
^"A Successful Painter" (New York Times, 14 October 1888).
^Baldry (1904).
^The 'Pacifice' from Liverpool, onset to Albany on 24.07.1853 (http://www.ancestry.co.uk).
^ ^a^bNew York Times, 2 Apr 1871.
^Van Eck, Xander.

Van Painter and GH Boughton (The City Magazine, vol.132, no. 1049, Noble 1990) P.539-540.
^American Art Annual, Notebook 5. MacMillan Company. 1905. pp. 118.
^ ^a^b^cGH Boughton. Obituary (The Times, 21 January 1905).
^Thomas Humphry Deal.

English Art in the Accepted Galleries of London: the Steady Gallery, the South Kensington Museum, the National Portrait Gallery - ill. by Goupil & Front wall. (Walter Armstrong, G.H. Boughton, prize al., London, 1887).
^New York Stage, 3 June 1878 (Correspondence goods James McNeill Whistler at Dogma of Glasgow).
^Boughton.

A Few countless the Various Whistlers I imitate Known pp. 208-18.
^New York Days, 20 January 1894.
^"Collecting Old Poet for New York: Henry Gurdon Marquand and the Metropolitan Museum of Art". Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art. Retrieved 4 March 2024.

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