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Recognized
as a leading landscape and genre painter in the United States and
abroad, George
Henry Boughton had the ability to express sentiments and pathos on
canvas. He illustrated editions of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle
and
History of New York and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter. In his
landscapes,
he painted scenes of England, Brittany and the Netherlands.
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Though
he was born in Norwich, England in 1833 and lived in London for the
second
half of his life, Boughton’s formative years as a self-taught artist
began
in Albany, New York, where his family settled in the 1830’s.
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By
age 19 he was a landscape painter of note and opened his first studio
in
1852. The American Art-Union purchased one of his early pictures. This
institution encouraged him by exhibiting his work and enabling him to
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In
1857, Boughton exhibited at the Washington Art Association, and from
1859
to 1860 he worked in New York City. In 1860, he traveled to Paris where
he studied under Edouard Frere and Edouard May. The French influences
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subsequently reflected in his style. |
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Boughton
established a studio in London in 1861. Though now living in England,
he
focused on subjects of American Colonial history. If ever there were a
painter who could tell a story with genuine sentiment, using soft tones
and colors, it was Boughton. A London critic once declared that he “has
learnt the secret of putting natural feelings into rustic figures,
which
has been almost entirely wanting to English painters.” The New England
history of the Puritans became the subject of his most famous painting,
“ Pilgrims Going to Church (Early Puritans of New England Going to
Church)”,
completed in 1867, now at the New York Historical Society.
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This
painting, currently owned by the Turak Gallery, depicts Rose Standish.
She, along with her husband Myles, joined the Pilgrims to sail on the
Mayflower
to the New World where he became their military leader, defending the
Puritan
settlement from unfriendly Indians. |
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Quite
an accomplished painter, his artwork was exhibited at the greatest
Academies
of which, he was also a member. Boughton continued his career in
England
until his death at Campden Hill in 1905. His artwork is now represented
in museums both in the United States and England. |
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Exhibitions:
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- American Art
Union - 1852
- National Academy
- 1853 and
from 1856 - 1876
- Washington Art
Association -
1857
- Maryland
Historical Society
- 1868
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Member:
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- Honorary Member
and Professional
of the National Academy,
New York from 1859
- 1860 - Member of the Water Color
Society
at the National Academy
- Full Member of
the National
Academy from 1871 - 1905
- Elected
Associate of the Royal
Academy in London - 1879
- Elected Full
Member of the Royal
Academy - 1896
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Museums:
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- Wadsworth
Atheneum, Hartford,
Connecticut - ”Faithful” 1870, “Daughter of the Knickerbocker “ 1880
- Boston Museum of
Fine Art -
“Sea Breeze”
- New York
Historical Society
- “Pilgrims Going to Church (Early Puritans of New England Going to
Church)”
- 1867
- Tate Gallery,
London - “Weeding
the Pavement”
- Liverpool - “ Le
Chemin de Camelot
- Lady of Shalott”
- Manchester - “
Evening Prayer”
- Sheffield - “The
Disembarkment
of the Pilgrims”
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