George Henry Boughton (English, 1833 - 1905) "Before the Cave of Belarius" Oil on Canvas. Signed lower left. Having digital copy of 1990 appraisal for $35,000 Exhibited: - Venice, Esposizione Internazional d'Art, 1901 - Royal Academy 1903, no. 179 Sight Size: 66 x 53.5 in. Overall Framed Size: 77 x 66 in. George Henry Boughton was a highly respected and well-noted historical, genre, portrait, sporting and landscape painter who was born in Norwich in 1833. He emigrated to America in 1839 and began his artistic studies on his own near Albany. Inspired by his own obvious talents, Boughton returned to London in 1853 to study art, but again returned to America and lived for a time in New York. He crossed the Atlantic once more and visited France where he came under the influence of Edouard Frere. After this sejour, the young artist returned finally to London in 1862 where he continued his studies under Fred Walker. Boughton's talents were quickly recognized by both art critics and the general public alike. Many of the most important exhibitions in London featured Boughton's work. This commercial success resulted in the artist's invitation to join many of the most prestigious art associations in both London and in America. In New York, Boughton was invited to join the Water Color Society of the National Academy, and in 1879 was elected ARA of the Royal Academy in London. In that same year he was also invited to join the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. Later, in 1896, Boughton was awarded the extremely high honor of full membership in the Royal Academy.
ARTIST: George Henry Boughton (New York, United Kinggdom, 1833 - 1905) TITLE: Adulation MEDIUM: watercolor on paper. Paper applied to board. CONDITION: Some age toning. Normal wear to edges. ART SIZE: 24 x 16 inches / 60 x 40 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available) (In-House framing available) SIGNATURE: lower right LOCATION: This lot is located at our Dania Beach, FL office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 132379 US SHIPPING: $89 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Henry Boughton RA (4 December 1833 - 19 January 1905) was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.Boughton was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer William Boughton. The family immigrated to the United States in 1835, and he grew up in Albany, New York, where he started his career as a self-taught artist. He was influenced by the artists of the Hudson River School.By the age of 19, Boughton was recognized as a landscape painter and opened his first studio in 1852. In 1853, the American Art Union purchased one of his early pictures which financed six months of studying art in England. He concluded this period of his training with a sketching tour of the Lake District, Scotland, and Ireland.After returning to the U.S., Boughton exhibited his works in Washington, D.C. and New York City, but in the late 1850s he finally made a decision to move to Europe. From 1859-61 he studied art in France under Pierre Edouard Frere (1819-1886) and Edward Harrison May (1824-1887).In 1861, Boughton opened a studio in London. While living in England, he focused on subjects of early American colonial history, and an American critic noticed that "for early history of this country his talents seems to be peculiarly fitted." His subject-pictures, such as the Early Puritans of New England Going to Church (1867), were especially popular. The Return of the Mayflower (shown at the Goupil Gallery, New York in 1871) was praised as "a picture which will live as long as the memory of the Mayflower itself lasts."Vincent van Gogh, who lived London in 1873-75, was much impressed by Boughton's painting Godspeed! Pilgrims Setting Out for Canterbury. Then working as a minister, he gave a sermon inspired by the painting, and wrote about it to his brother Theo. The Boughton painting is now part of the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.Boughton illustrated Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poems. In 1893, the edition of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow was published in London with 53 illustrations by 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."Boughton exhibited extensively in both Britain and the U.S. and was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1871. He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1879, and a Royal Academician (RA) in 1896. "He was a useful and popular member of this body, and worked well as member of the council, as a 'hanger', and as a teacher in the schools." After the death of John Callcott Horsley, Boughton was elected a Director of the "Fine Art and General Insurance Company".Among his landscape paintings - views of England and Brittany in France. In 1883, he travelled to Holland. His illustrated account of that journey was published in the Harper's Magazine as 'Artist Strolls in Holland', and published next year in London as Sketching Rambles in Holland (see bibliography).Boughton obviously took pleasure in writing: later he would participate in the publication of the 'English Art in the Public Galleries of London' providing the overview of George Morland's biography and work.Boughton easily socialised in London artistic circles and was a member of the Arts Club (1869-96), of the Reform Club, the Athenaeum Club, the Burlington Fine Arts Club and the Grolier and Lotos Clubs in New York.In 1865, Boughton married Katherine Louise Cullen (1845-after 1901), and they had an adopted daughter, Florence. Along with John Callcott Horsley, he was one of the early clients of architect Richard Norman Shaw who built a house for the Boughtons on Campden Hill, London. "The parties given here by Mr and Mrs Boughton were celebrated among artistic and literary people and in the Anglo-American section of the society."It was noticed that Boughton was influenced by works of British painter and illustrator Frederick Walker (1840-1875). In the 1870s in London he met James Whistler. In 1878, an American reviewer praised them as "shining lights in the art world" of London. Boughton published vivid recollections about Whistler, particularly mentioning his work on the famous ''Peacock Room'. In 1877 he made an acquaintance 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 affair with Boughton. The novel Christina Chard (1894) by Mrs Rosa Campbell-Praed (1851-1935), an Australian novelist, was dedicated to Boughton, because he had suggested the idea of the book.Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, he was associated with several artistic colonies in countryside, namely with the village of Broadway in Worcestershire, the rustic beauty of which was recognised by many American artists. Along with Henry James, Edwin Abbey, John Singer Sargent and others, he frequently visited Broadway. Through Horsley and Shaw he also was associated with the Cranbrook Colony of artists, visiting them in the late 1860s-1880s.Boughton died of heart disease, on 19 January 1905, in his studio at Campden Hill, north London. His obituary stated that "he was kindly, genial, humorous, a lover of a good story, the essence of hospitality, and wholly free from jealousy, malice, and incharitable judgments."His paintings are now represented in many museums in the United States and Europe.
GOOD G.H. BOUGHTON BRITTANY PAINTING, 1867 GEORGE HENRY BOUGHTON (Anglo-American 1833-1905) Brittany Interior - Motherhood -1867 Oil on canvas Monogrammed and dated lower right 1867 10.25 x 12.25 inches (25.5 x 31cm). Overall, including frame 16 x 18 inches (40.5 x 46cm)
ARTIST: George Henry Boughton (New York, United Kinggdom, 1833 - 1905) TITLE: Adulation MEDIUM: watercolor on paper. Paper applied to board. CONDITION: Some age toning. Normal wear to edges. ART SIZE: 24 x 16 inches / 60 x 40 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available) SIGNATURE: lower right LOCATION: This lot is located at our Dania Beach, FL office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 132379 US SHIPPING: $89 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Henry Boughton RA (4 December 1833 - 19 January 1905) was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.Boughton was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer William Boughton. The family immigrated to the United States in 1835, and he grew up in Albany, New York, where he started his career as a self-taught artist. He was influenced by the artists of the Hudson River School.By the age of 19, Boughton was recognized as a landscape painter and opened his first studio in 1852. In 1853, the American Art Union purchased one of his early pictures which financed six months of studying art in England. He concluded this period of his training with a sketching tour of the Lake District, Scotland, and Ireland.After returning to the U.S., Boughton exhibited his works in Washington, D.C. and New York City, but in the late 1850s he finally made a decision to move to Europe. From 1859-61 he studied art in France under Pierre Edouard Frere (1819-1886) and Edward Harrison May (1824-1887).In 1861, Boughton opened a studio in London. While living in England, he focused on subjects of early American colonial history, and an American critic noticed that "for early history of this country his talents seems to be peculiarly fitted." His subject-pictures, such as the Early Puritans of New England Going to Church (1867), were especially popular. The Return of the Mayflower (shown at the Goupil Gallery, New York in 1871) was praised as "a picture which will live as long as the memory of the Mayflower itself lasts."Vincent van Gogh, who lived London in 1873-75, was much impressed by Boughton's painting Godspeed! Pilgrims Setting Out for Canterbury. Then working as a minister, he gave a sermon inspired by the painting, and wrote about it to his brother Theo. The Boughton painting is now part of the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.Boughton illustrated Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poems. In 1893, the edition of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow was published in London with 53 illustrations by 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."Boughton exhibited extensively in both Britain and the U.S. and was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1871. He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1879, and a Royal Academician (RA) in 1896. "He was a useful and popular member of this body, and worked well as member of the council, as a 'hanger', and as a teacher in the schools." After the death of John Callcott Horsley, Boughton was elected a Director of the "Fine Art and General Insurance Company".Among his landscape paintings - views of England and Brittany in France. In 1883, he travelled to Holland. His illustrated account of that journey was published in the Harper's Magazine as 'Artist Strolls in Holland', and published next year in London as Sketching Rambles in Holland (see bibliography).Boughton obviously took pleasure in writing: later he would participate in the publication of the 'English Art in the Public Galleries of London' providing the overview of George Morland's biography and work.Boughton easily socialised in London artistic circles and was a member of the Arts Club (1869-96), of the Reform Club, the Athenaeum Club, the Burlington Fine Arts Club and the Grolier and Lotos Clubs in New York.In 1865, Boughton married Katherine Louise Cullen (1845-after 1901), and they had an adopted daughter, Florence. Along with John Callcott Horsley, he was one of the early clients of architect Richard Norman Shaw who built a house for the Boughtons on Campden Hill, London. "The parties given here by Mr and Mrs Boughton were celebrated among artistic and literary people and in the Anglo-American section of the society."It was noticed that Boughton was influenced by works of British painter and illustrator Frederick Walker (1840-1875). In the 1870s in London he met James Whistler. In 1878, an American reviewer praised them as "shining lights in the art world" of London. Boughton published vivid recollections about Whistler, particularly mentioning his work on the famous 'Peacock Room'. In 1877 he made an acquaintance 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 affair with Boughton. The novel Christina Chard (1894) by Mrs Rosa Campbell-Praed (1851-1935), an Australian novelist, was dedicated to Boughton, because he had suggested the idea of the book.Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, he was associated with several artistic colonies in countryside, namely with the village of Broadway in Worcestershire, the rustic beauty of which was recognised by many American artists. Along with Henry James, Edwin Abbey, John Singer Sargent and others, he frequently visited Broadway. Through Horsley and Shaw he also was associated with the Cranbrook Colony of artists, visiting them in the late 1860s-1880s.Boughton died of heart disease, on 19 January 1905, in his studio at Campden Hill, north London. His obituary stated that "he was kindly, genial, humorous, a lover of a good story, the essence of hospitality, and wholly free from jealousy, malice, and incharitable judgments."His paintings are now represented in many museums in the United States and Europe.
ARTIST: George Henry Boughton (New York, United Kinggdom, 1833 - 1905) TITLE: Adulation MEDIUM: watercolor on paper. Paper applied to board. CONDITION: Some age toning. Normal wear to edges. ART SIZE: 24 x 16 inches / 60 x 40 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available) SIGNATURE: lower right LOCATION: This lot is located at our Dania Beach, FL office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 132379 US SHIPPING: $89 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Henry Boughton RA (4 December 1833 - 19 January 1905) was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.Boughton was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer William Boughton. The family immigrated to the United States in 1835, and he grew up in Albany, New York, where he started his career as a self-taught artist. He was influenced by the artists of the Hudson River School.By the age of 19, Boughton was recognized as a landscape painter and opened his first studio in 1852. In 1853, the American Art Union purchased one of his early pictures which financed six months of studying art in England. He concluded this period of his training with a sketching tour of the Lake District, Scotland, and Ireland.After returning to the U.S., Boughton exhibited his works in Washington, D.C. and New York City, but in the late 1850s he finally made a decision to move to Europe. From 1859-61 he studied art in France under Pierre Edouard Frere (1819-1886) and Edward Harrison May (1824-1887).In 1861, Boughton opened a studio in London. While living in England, he focused on subjects of early American colonial history, and an American critic noticed that "for early history of this country his talents seems to be peculiarly fitted." His subject-pictures, such as the Early Puritans of New England Going to Church (1867), were especially popular. The Return of the Mayflower (shown at the Goupil Gallery, New York in 1871) was praised as "a picture which will live as long as the memory of the Mayflower itself lasts."Vincent van Gogh, who lived London in 1873-75, was much impressed by Boughton's painting Godspeed! Pilgrims Setting Out for Canterbury. Then working as a minister, he gave a sermon inspired by the painting, and wrote about it to his brother Theo. The Boughton painting is now part of the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.Boughton illustrated Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poems. In 1893, the edition of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow was published in London with 53 illustrations by 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."Boughton exhibited extensively in both Britain and the U.S. and was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1871. He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1879, and a Royal Academician (RA) in 1896. "He was a useful and popular member of this body, and worked well as member of the council, as a 'hanger', and as a teacher in the schools." After the death of John Callcott Horsley, Boughton was elected a Director of the "Fine Art and General Insurance Company".Among his landscape paintings - views of England and Brittany in France. In 1883, he travelled to Holland. His illustrated account of that journey was published in the Harper's Magazine as 'Artist Strolls in Holland', and published next year in London as Sketching Rambles in Holland (see bibliography).Boughton obviously took pleasure in writing: later he would participate in the publication of the 'English Art in the Public Galleries of London' providing the overview of George Morland's biography and work.Boughton easily socialised in London artistic circles and was a member of the Arts Club (1869-96), of the Reform Club, the Athenaeum Club, the Burlington Fine Arts Club and the Grolier and Lotos Clubs in New York.In 1865, Boughton married Katherine Louise Cullen (1845-after 1901), and they had an adopted daughter, Florence. Along with John Callcott Horsley, he was one of the early clients of architect Richard Norman Shaw who built a house for the Boughtons on Campden Hill, London. "The parties given here by Mr and Mrs Boughton were celebrated among artistic and literary people and in the Anglo-American section of the society."It was noticed that Boughton was influenced by works of British painter and illustrator Frederick Walker (1840-1875). In the 1870s in London he met James Whistler. In 1878, an American reviewer praised them as "shining lights in the art world" of London. Boughton published vivid recollections about Whistler, particularly mentioning his work on the famous 'Peacock Room'. In 1877 he made an acquaintance 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 affair with Boughton. The novel Christina Chard (1894) by Mrs Rosa Campbell-Praed (1851-1935), an Australian novelist, was dedicated to Boughton, because he had suggested the idea of the book.Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, he was associated with several artistic colonies in countryside, namely with the village of Broadway in Worcestershire, the rustic beauty of which was recognised by many American artists. Along with Henry James, Edwin Abbey, John Singer Sargent and others, he frequently visited Broadway. Through Horsley and Shaw he also was associated with the Cranbrook Colony of artists, visiting them in the late 1860s-1880s.Boughton died of heart disease, on 19 January 1905, in his studio at Campden Hill, north London. His obituary stated that "he was kindly, genial, humorous, a lover of a good story, the essence of hospitality, and wholly free from jealousy, malice, and incharitable judgments."His paintings are now represented in many museums in the United States and Europe.
ARTIST: George Henry Boughton (New York, United Kinggdom, 1833 - 1905) TITLE: Adulation MEDIUM: watercolor on paper. Paper applied to board. CONDITION: Some age toning. Normal wear to edges. ART SIZE: 24 x 16 inches / 60 x 40 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available) SIGNATURE: lower right LOCATION: This lot is located at our Dania Beach, FL office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 132379 US SHIPPING: $89 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Henry Boughton RA (4 December 1833 - 19 January 1905) was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.Boughton was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer William Boughton. The family immigrated to the United States in 1835, and he grew up in Albany, New York, where he started his career as a self-taught artist. He was influenced by the artists of the Hudson River School.By the age of 19, Boughton was recognized as a landscape painter and opened his first studio in 1852. In 1853, the American Art Union purchased one of his early pictures which financed six months of studying art in England. He concluded this period of his training with a sketching tour of the Lake District, Scotland, and Ireland.After returning to the U.S., Boughton exhibited his works in Washington, D.C. and New York City, but in the late 1850s he finally made a decision to move to Europe. From 1859-61 he studied art in France under Pierre Edouard Frere (1819-1886) and Edward Harrison May (1824-1887).In 1861, Boughton opened a studio in London. While living in England, he focused on subjects of early American colonial history, and an American critic noticed that "for early history of this country his talents seems to be peculiarly fitted." His subject-pictures, such as the Early Puritans of New England Going to Church (1867), were especially popular. The Return of the Mayflower (shown at the Goupil Gallery, New York in 1871) was praised as "a picture which will live as long as the memory of the Mayflower itself lasts."Vincent van Gogh, who lived London in 1873-75, was much impressed by Boughton's painting Godspeed! Pilgrims Setting Out for Canterbury. Then working as a minister, he gave a sermon inspired by the painting, and wrote about it to his brother Theo. The Boughton painting is now part of the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.Boughton illustrated Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poems. In 1893, the edition of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow was published in London with 53 illustrations by 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."Boughton exhibited extensively in both Britain and the U.S. and was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1871. He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1879, and a Royal Academician (RA) in 1896. "He was a useful and popular member of this body, and worked well as member of the council, as a 'hanger', and as a teacher in the schools." After the death of John Callcott Horsley, Boughton was elected a Director of the "Fine Art and General Insurance Company".Among his landscape paintings - views of England and Brittany in France. In 1883, he travelled to Holland. His illustrated account of that journey was published in the Harper's Magazine as 'Artist Strolls in Holland', and published next year in London as Sketching Rambles in Holland (see bibliography).Boughton obviously took pleasure in writing: later he would participate in the publication of the 'English Art in the Public Galleries of London' providing the overview of George Morland's biography and work.Boughton easily socialised in London artistic circles and was a member of the Arts Club (1869-96), of the Reform Club, the Athenaeum Club, the Burlington Fine Arts Club and the Grolier and Lotos Clubs in New York.In 1865, Boughton married Katherine Louise Cullen (1845-after 1901), and they had an adopted daughter, Florence. Along with John Callcott Horsley, he was one of the early clients of architect Richard Norman Shaw who built a house for the Boughtons on Campden Hill, London. "The parties given here by Mr and Mrs Boughton were celebrated among artistic and literary people and in the Anglo-American section of the society."It was noticed that Boughton was influenced by works of British painter and illustrator Frederick Walker (1840-1875). In the 1870s in London he met James Whistler. In 1878, an American reviewer praised them as "shining lights in the art world" of London. Boughton published vivid recollections about Whistler, particularly mentioning his work on the famous 'Peacock Room'. In 1877 he made an acquaintance 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 affair with Boughton. The novel Christina Chard (1894) by Mrs Rosa Campbell-Praed (1851-1935), an Australian novelist, was dedicated to Boughton, because he had suggested the idea of the book.Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, he was associated with several artistic colonies in countryside, namely with the village of Broadway in Worcestershire, the rustic beauty of which was recognised by many American artists. Along with Henry James, Edwin Abbey, John Singer Sargent and others, he frequently visited Broadway. Through Horsley and Shaw he also was associated with the Cranbrook Colony of artists, visiting them in the late 1860s-1880s.Boughton died of heart disease, on 19 January 1905, in his studio at Campden Hill, north London. His obituary stated that "he was kindly, genial, humorous, a lover of a good story, the essence of hospitality, and wholly free from jealousy, malice, and incharitable judgments."His paintings are now represented in many museums in the United States and Europe.
ARTIST: George Henry Boughton (New York, United Kinggdom, 1833 - 1905) TITLE: Adulation MEDIUM: watercolor on paper. Paper applied to board. CONDITION: Some age toning. Normal wear to edges. ART SIZE: 24 x 16 inches / 60 x 40 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available) SIGNATURE: lower right LOCATION: This lot is located at our Dania Beach, FL office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 132379 US SHIPPING: $89 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Henry Boughton RA (4 December 1833 - 19 January 1905) was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.Boughton was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer William Boughton. The family immigrated to the United States in 1835, and he grew up in Albany, New York, where he started his career as a self-taught artist. He was influenced by the artists of the Hudson River School.By the age of 19, Boughton was recognized as a landscape painter and opened his first studio in 1852. In 1853, the American Art Union purchased one of his early pictures which financed six months of studying art in England. He concluded this period of his training with a sketching tour of the Lake District, Scotland, and Ireland.After returning to the U.S., Boughton exhibited his works in Washington, D.C. and New York City, but in the late 1850s he finally made a decision to move to Europe. From 1859-61 he studied art in France under Pierre Edouard Frere (1819-1886) and Edward Harrison May (1824-1887).In 1861, Boughton opened a studio in London. While living in England, he focused on subjects of early American colonial history, and an American critic noticed that "for early history of this country his talents seems to be peculiarly fitted." His subject-pictures, such as the Early Puritans of New England Going to Church (1867), were especially popular. The Return of the Mayflower (shown at the Goupil Gallery, New York in 1871) was praised as "a picture which will live as long as the memory of the Mayflower itself lasts."Vincent van Gogh, who lived London in 1873-75, was much impressed by Boughton's painting Godspeed! Pilgrims Setting Out for Canterbury. Then working as a minister, he gave a sermon inspired by the painting, and wrote about it to his brother Theo. The Boughton painting is now part of the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.Boughton illustrated Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poems. In 1893, the edition of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow was published in London with 53 illustrations by 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."Boughton exhibited extensively in both Britain and the U.S. and was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1871. He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1879, and a Royal Academician (RA) in 1896. "He was a useful and popular member of this body, and worked well as member of the council, as a 'hanger', and as a teacher in the schools." After the death of John Callcott Horsley, Boughton was elected a Director of the "Fine Art and General Insurance Company".Among his landscape paintings - views of England and Brittany in France. In 1883, he travelled to Holland. His illustrated account of that journey was published in the Harper's Magazine as 'Artist Strolls in Holland', and published next year in London as Sketching Rambles in Holland (see bibliography).Boughton obviously took pleasure in writing: later he would participate in the publication of the 'English Art in the Public Galleries of London' providing the overview of George Morland's biography and work.Boughton easily socialised in London artistic circles and was a member of the Arts Club (1869-96), of the Reform Club, the Athenaeum Club, the Burlington Fine Arts Club and the Grolier and Lotos Clubs in New York.In 1865, Boughton married Katherine Louise Cullen (1845-after 1901), and they had an adopted daughter, Florence. Along with John Callcott Horsley, he was one of the early clients of architect Richard Norman Shaw who built a house for the Boughtons on Campden Hill, London. "The parties given here by Mr and Mrs Boughton were celebrated among artistic and literary people and in the Anglo-American section of the society."It was noticed that Boughton was influenced by works of British painter and illustrator Frederick Walker (1840-1875). In the 1870s in London he met James Whistler. In 1878, an American reviewer praised them as "shining lights in the art world" of London. Boughton published vivid recollections about Whistler, particularly mentioning his work on the famous 'Peacock Room'. In 1877 he made an acquaintance 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 affair with Boughton. The novel Christina Chard (1894) by Mrs Rosa Campbell-Praed (1851-1935), an Australian novelist, was dedicated to Boughton, because he had suggested the idea of the book.Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, he was associated with several artistic colonies in countryside, namely with the village of Broadway in Worcestershire, the rustic beauty of which was recognised by many American artists. Along with Henry James, Edwin Abbey, John Singer Sargent and others, he frequently visited Broadway. Through Horsley and Shaw he also was associated with the Cranbrook Colony of artists, visiting them in the late 1860s-1880s.Boughton died of heart disease, on 19 January 1905, in his studio at Campden Hill, north London. His obituary stated that "he was kindly, genial, humorous, a lover of a good story, the essence of hospitality, and wholly free from jealousy, malice, and incharitable judgments."His paintings are now represented in many museums in the United States and Europe.
The Good Aunt oil on canvas signed lower-left canvas: 16-1/4 x 20-1/4 in. (41.3 x 51.4 cm) framed: 28 x 2-1/4 x 24-1/2 in. (71.1 x 5.7 x 62.2 cm) Condition Canvas is relined, showing signs of minor retouches. Condition: Dimensions: Frame: 28" x 2 - 1/4" x 24 - 1/2".
ARTIST: George Henry Boughton (New York, United Kinggdom, 1833 - 1905) TITLE: Adulation MEDIUM: watercolor on paper. Paper applied to board. CONDITION: Some age toning. Normal wear to edges. ART SIZE: 24 x 16 inches / 60 x 40 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available) SIGNATURE: lower right LOCATION: This lot is located at our Dania Beach, FL office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 132379 US SHIPPING: $89 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Henry Boughton RA (4 December 1833 - 19 January 1905) was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.Boughton was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer William Boughton. The family immigrated to the United States in 1835, and he grew up in Albany, New York, where he started his career as a self-taught artist. He was influenced by the artists of the Hudson River School.By the age of 19, Boughton was recognized as a landscape painter and opened his first studio in 1852. In 1853, the American Art Union purchased one of his early pictures which financed six months of studying art in England. He concluded this period of his training with a sketching tour of the Lake District, Scotland, and Ireland.After returning to the U.S., Boughton exhibited his works in Washington, D.C. and New York City, but in the late 1850s he finally made a decision to move to Europe. From 1859-61 he studied art in France under Pierre Edouard Frere (1819-1886) and Edward Harrison May (1824-1887).In 1861, Boughton opened a studio in London. While living in England, he focused on subjects of early American colonial history, and an American critic noticed that "for early history of this country his talents seems to be peculiarly fitted." His subject-pictures, such as the Early Puritans of New England Going to Church (1867), were especially popular. The Return of the Mayflower (shown at the Goupil Gallery, New York in 1871) was praised as "a picture which will live as long as the memory of the Mayflower itself lasts."Vincent van Gogh, who lived London in 1873-75, was much impressed by Boughton's painting Godspeed! Pilgrims Setting Out for Canterbury. Then working as a minister, he gave a sermon inspired by the painting, and wrote about it to his brother Theo. The Boughton painting is now part of the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.Boughton illustrated Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poems. In 1893, the edition of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow was published in London with 53 illustrations by 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."Boughton exhibited extensively in both Britain and the U.S. and was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1871. He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1879, and a Royal Academician (RA) in 1896. "He was a useful and popular member of this body, and worked well as member of the council, as a 'hanger', and as a teacher in the schools." After the death of John Callcott Horsley, Boughton was elected a Director of the "Fine Art and General Insurance Company".Among his landscape paintings - views of England and Brittany in France. In 1883, he travelled to Holland. His illustrated account of that journey was published in the Harper's Magazine as 'Artist Strolls in Holland', and published next year in London as Sketching Rambles in Holland (see bibliography).Boughton obviously took pleasure in writing: later he would participate in the publication of the 'English Art in the Public Galleries of London' providing the overview of George Morland's biography and work.Boughton easily socialised in London artistic circles and was a member of the Arts Club (1869-96), of the Reform Club, the Athenaeum Club, the Burlington Fine Arts Club and the Grolier and Lotos Clubs in New York.In 1865, Boughton married Katherine Louise Cullen (1845-after 1901), and they had an adopted daughter, Florence. Along with John Callcott Horsley, he was one of the early clients of architect Richard Norman Shaw who built a house for the Boughtons on Campden Hill, London. "The parties given here by Mr and Mrs Boughton were celebrated among artistic and literary people and in the Anglo-American section of the society."It was noticed that Boughton was influenced by works of British painter and illustrator Frederick Walker (1840-1875). In the 1870s in London he met James Whistler. In 1878, an American reviewer praised them as "shining lights in the art world" of London. Boughton published vivid recollections about Whistler, particularly mentioning his work on the famous 'Peacock Room'. In 1877 he made an acquaintance 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 affair with Boughton. The novel Christina Chard (1894) by Mrs Rosa Campbell-Praed (1851-1935), an Australian novelist, was dedicated to Boughton, because he had suggested the idea of the book.Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, he was associated with several artistic colonies in countryside, namely with the village of Broadway in Worcestershire, the rustic beauty of which was recognised by many American artists. Along with Henry James, Edwin Abbey, John Singer Sargent and others, he frequently visited Broadway. Through Horsley and Shaw he also was associated with the Cranbrook Colony of artists, visiting them in the late 1860s-1880s.Boughton died of heart disease, on 19 January 1905, in his studio at Campden Hill, north London. His obituary stated that "he was kindly, genial, humorous, a lover of a good story, the essence of hospitality, and wholly free from jealousy, malice, and incharitable judgments."His paintings are now represented in many museums in the United States and Europe.
Irving, Washington (1783-1859) & George H. Boughton, illus. (1833-1905) Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. Early book edition, octavo; half-title present; with fifty-three illustrations by Boughton (1833-1905) in black-and-white; no. 39 of 100 copies bound in green leather by Exeter Bookbinders, lettered in gilt, the front panel decorated with a prosthetic blue glass eye edged in green leather, all edges gilt (scattered stains and spotting); 7 1/8 x 4 5/8 in. Washington Irving's two most famous short stories were originally published in the collection, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., in 1820. Today, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle are important cornerstones of North America's collective cultural consciousness. The Sketchbook also impressed readers and important literary figures overseas. Early admirers included Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, as well as Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, whose interest in literature was sparked by Irving's masterful writing.
George Henry Boughton (English/American, 1833-1905), "Autumn", Oil on Canvas, signed "G.H. Boughton" lower right, Questroyal Fine Art label to verso, giltwood frame. Image: 20.25" H x 12.5" W; frame: 29" H x 21.25" W. Provenance: Schutz & Co., New York. Sotheby's, New York, 10 October 2007, Lot 102. Questroyal Fine Art, New York, 2009. From a Long Island Collection. Keywords: Painting, Oil painting, Works on Canvas, Figural, Figurative, Female figure, Standing Woman Reading a Book, Landscape scene, Genre Scene, Anglo-American Artists, Antique, Turn-of-the-Century Art
George Henry Boughton, RA, British / American 1833-1905- A lady, standing full-length, dressed in historical costume and reading a letter; pencil and watercolour heightened with white on paper, signed 'G.H. BOUGHTON' (lower right), 34 x 24.1 cm. Provenance: with Pyms Gallery, London, stock no. PG F602. Note: The artist repeatedly returned to the subject of young female figures in a natural setting, often as the personification of the seasons. Boughton's paintings generally present a somewhat romanticised image of rural life, even when they are not explicitly allegorical, with the present work depicting a contemplative young figure, dressed in what appears to be 18th-century clothing, absorbed in the reading of a letter.
ARTIST: George Henry Boughton (New York, United Kinggdom, 1833 - 1905) TITLE: Adulation MEDIUM: watercolor on paper. Paper applied to board. CONDITION: Some age toning. Normal wear to edges. ART SIZE: 24 x 16 inches / 60 x 40 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available) SIGNATURE: lower right LOCATION: This lot is located at our Dania Beach, FL office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 132379 US SHIPPING: $79 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Henry Boughton RA (4 December 1833 - 19 January 1905) was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.Boughton was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer William Boughton. The family immigrated to the United States in 1835, and he grew up in Albany, New York, where he started his career as a self-taught artist. He was influenced by the artists of the Hudson River School.By the age of 19, Boughton was recognized as a landscape painter and opened his first studio in 1852. In 1853, the American Art Union purchased one of his early pictures which financed six months of studying art in England. He concluded this period of his training with a sketching tour of the Lake District, Scotland, and Ireland.After returning to the U.S., Boughton exhibited his works in Washington, D.C. and New York City, but in the late 1850s he finally made a decision to move to Europe. From 1859-61 he studied art in France under Pierre Edouard Frere (1819-1886) and Edward Harrison May (1824-1887).In 1861, Boughton opened a studio in London. While living in England, he focused on subjects of early American colonial history, and an American critic noticed that "for early history of this country his talents seems to be peculiarly fitted." His subject-pictures, such as the Early Puritans of New England Going to Church (1867), were especially popular. The Return of the Mayflower (shown at the Goupil Gallery, New York in 1871) was praised as "a picture which will live as long as the memory of the Mayflower itself lasts."Vincent van Gogh, who lived London in 1873-75, was much impressed by Boughton's painting Godspeed! Pilgrims Setting Out for Canterbury. Then working as a minister, he gave a sermon inspired by the painting, and wrote about it to his brother Theo. The Boughton painting is now part of the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.Boughton illustrated Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poems. In 1893, the edition of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow was published in London with 53 illustrations by 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."Boughton exhibited extensively in both Britain and the U.S. and was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1871. He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1879, and a Royal Academician (RA) in 1896. "He was a useful and popular member of this body, and worked well as member of the council, as a 'hanger', and as a teacher in the schools." After the death of John Callcott Horsley, Boughton was elected a Director of the "Fine Art and General Insurance Company".Among his landscape paintings - views of England and Brittany in France. In 1883, he travelled to Holland. His illustrated account of that journey was published in the Harper's Magazine as 'Artist Strolls in Holland', and published next year in London as Sketching Rambles in Holland (see bibliography).Boughton obviously took pleasure in writing: later he would participate in the publication of the 'English Art in the Public Galleries of London' providing the overview of George Morland's biography and work.Boughton easily socialised in London artistic circles and was a member of the Arts Club (1869-96), of the Reform Club, the Athenaeum Club, the Burlington Fine Arts Club and the Grolier and Lotos Clubs in New York.In 1865, Boughton married Katherine Louise Cullen (1845-after 1901), and they had an adopted daughter, Florence. Along with John Callcott Horsley, he was one of the early clients of architect Richard Norman Shaw who built a house for the Boughtons on Campden Hill, London. "The parties given here by Mr and Mrs Boughton were celebrated among artistic and literary people and in the Anglo-American section of the society."It was noticed that Boughton was influenced by works of British painter and illustrator Frederick Walker (1840-1875). In the 1870s in London he met James Whistler. In 1878, an American reviewer praised them as "shining lights in the art world" of London. Boughton published vivid recollections about Whistler, particularly mentioning his work on the famous 'Peacock Room'. In 1877 he made an acquaintance 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 affair with Boughton. The novel Christina Chard (1894) by Mrs Rosa Campbell-Praed (1851-1935), an Australian novelist, was dedicated to Boughton, because he had suggested the idea of the book.Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, he was associated with several artistic colonies in countryside, namely with the village of Broadway in Worcestershire, the rustic beauty of which was recognised by many American artists. Along with Henry James, Edwin Abbey, John Singer Sargent and others, he frequently visited Broadway. Through Horsley and Shaw he also was associated with the Cranbrook Colony of artists, visiting them in the late 1860s-1880s.Boughton died of heart disease, on 19 January 1905, in his studio at Campden Hill, north London. His obituary stated that "he was kindly, genial, humorous, a lover of a good story, the essence of hospitality, and wholly free from jealousy, malice, and incharitable judgments."His paintings are now represented in many museums in the United States and Europe.
ARTIST: George Henry Boughton (New York, United Kinggdom, 1833 - 1905) TITLE: Adulation MEDIUM: watercolor on paper. Paper applied to board. CONDITION: Some age toning. Normal wear to edges. ART SIZE: 24 x 16 inches / 60 x 40 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available) SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 132379 US SHIPPING: $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Henry Boughton RA (4 December 1833 - 19 January 1905) was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.Boughton was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer William Boughton. The family immigrated to the United States in 1835, and he grew up in Albany, New York, where he started his career as a self-taught artist. He was influenced by the artists of the Hudson River School.By the age of 19, Boughton was recognized as a landscape painter and opened his first studio in 1852. In 1853, the American Art Union purchased one of his early pictures which financed six months of studying art in England. He concluded this period of his training with a sketching tour of the Lake District, Scotland, and Ireland.After returning to the U.S., Boughton exhibited his works in Washington, D.C. and New York City, but in the late 1850s he finally made a decision to move to Europe. From 1859-61 he studied art in France under Pierre Edouard Frere (1819-1886) and Edward Harrison May (1824-1887).In 1861, Boughton opened a studio in London. While living in England, he focused on subjects of early American colonial history, and an American critic noticed that "for early history of this country his talents seems to be peculiarly fitted." His subject-pictures, such as the Early Puritans of New England Going to Church (1867), were especially popular. The Return of the Mayflower (shown at the Goupil Gallery, New York in 1871) was praised as "a picture which will live as long as the memory of the Mayflower itself lasts."Vincent van Gogh, who lived London in 1873-75, was much impressed by Boughton's painting Godspeed! Pilgrims Setting Out for Canterbury. Then working as a minister, he gave a sermon inspired by the painting, and wrote about it to his brother Theo. The Boughton painting is now part of the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.Boughton illustrated Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poems. In 1893, the edition of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow was published in London with 53 illustrations by 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."Boughton exhibited extensively in both Britain and the U.S. and was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1871. He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1879, and a Royal Academician (RA) in 1896. "He was a useful and popular member of this body, and worked well as member of the council, as a 'hanger', and as a teacher in the schools." After the death of John Callcott Horsley, Boughton was elected a Director of the "Fine Art and General Insurance Company".Among his landscape paintings - views of England and Brittany in France. In 1883, he travelled to Holland. His illustrated account of that journey was published in the Harper's Magazine as 'Artist Strolls in Holland', and published next year in London as Sketching Rambles in Holland (see bibliography).Boughton obviously took pleasure in writing: later he would participate in the publication of the 'English Art in the Public Galleries of London' providing the overview of George Morland's biography and work.Boughton easily socialised in London artistic circles and was a member of the Arts Club (1869-96), of the Reform Club, the Athenaeum Club, the Burlington Fine Arts Club and the Grolier and Lotos Clubs in New York.In 1865, Boughton married Katherine Louise Cullen (1845-after 1901), and they had an adopted daughter, Florence. Along with John Callcott Horsley, he was one of the early clients of architect Richard Norman Shaw who built a house for the Boughtons on Campden Hill, London. "The parties given here by Mr and Mrs Boughton were celebrated among artistic and literary people and in the Anglo-American section of the society."It was noticed that Boughton was influenced by works of British painter and illustrator Frederick Walker (1840-1875). In the 1870s in London he met James Whistler. In 1878, an American reviewer praised them as "shining lights in the art world" of London. Boughton published vivid recollections about Whistler, particularly mentioning his work on the famous 'Peacock Room'. In 1877 he made an acquaintance 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 affair with Boughton. The novel Christina Chard (1894) by Mrs Rosa Campbell-Praed (1851-1935), an Australian novelist, was dedicated to Boughton, because he had suggested the idea of the book.Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, he was associated with several artistic colonies in countryside, namely with the village of Broadway in Worcestershire, the rustic beauty of which was recognised by many American artists. Along with Henry James, Edwin Abbey, John Singer Sargent and others, he frequently visited Broadway. Through Horsley and Shaw he also was associated with the Cranbrook Colony of artists, visiting them in the late 1860s-1880s.Boughton died of heart disease, on 19 January 1905, in his studio at Campden Hill, north London. His obituary stated that "he was kindly, genial, humorous, a lover of a good story, the essence of hospitality, and wholly free from jealousy, malice, and incharitable judgments."His paintings are now represented in many museums in the United States and Europe.
George Henry Boughton RA, American 1833-1905 - Only a Memory, 1901; watercolour and ink on paper, signed and dated centre right 'GH Boughton 1901', dedicated lower right 'To Miss Dorothy Mempes with best wishes', 15.5 x 11.5 cm Provenance: The Collection of Mary and Alan Hobart, Founders of Pyms Gallery
ARTIST: George Henry Boughton (New York, United Kingdom, 1833 - 1905) TITLE: Courting Couple MEDIUM: oil on canvas. Canvas applied to board CONDITION: Few nail holes along edges. Some craquelure. Minor paint losses. Some scattered inpaintings. ART SIZE: 43 x 55 inches / 109 x 139 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available) SIGNATURE: lower right ATTENTION: This lot is located at our Mamaroneck, NY office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 132533 US Shipping $369 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Henry Boughton RA (4 December 1833 - 19 January 1905) was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.Boughton was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer William Boughton. The family immigrated to the United States in 1835, and he grew up in Albany, New York, where he started his career as a self-taught artist. He was influenced by the artists of the Hudson River School.By the age of 19, Boughton was recognized as a landscape painter and opened his first studio in 1852. In 1853, the American Art Union purchased one of his early pictures which financed six months of studying art in England. He concluded this period of his training with a sketching tour of the Lake District, Scotland, and Ireland.After returning to the U.S., Boughton exhibited his works in Washington, D.C. and New York City, but in the late 1850s he finally made a decision to move to Europe. From 1859-61 he studied art in France under Pierre Edouard Frere (1819-1886) and Edward Harrison May (1824-1887).In 1861, Boughton opened a studio in London. While living in England, he focused on subjects of early American colonial history, and an American critic noticed that "for early history of this country his talents seems to be peculiarly fitted." His subject-pictures, such as the Early Puritans of New England Going to Church (1867), were especially popular. The Return of the Mayflower (shown at the Goupil Gallery, New York in 1871) was praised as "a picture which will live as long as the memory of the Mayflower itself lasts."Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, he was associated with several artistic colonies in countryside, namely with the village of Broadway in Worcestershire, the rustic beauty of which was recognized by American artists. Along with Henry James, Edwin Abbey, John Singer Sargent and others, he frequently visited Broadway. Through Horsley and Shaw he also was associated with the Cranbrook Colony of artists, visiting them in the late 1860s-1880s. Boughton also served as an agent and advisor to Henry Gurdon Marquand, one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and namesake of the Marquand Collection.Boughton died of heart disease, on 19 January 1905, in his studio at Campden Hill, north London. His obituary stated that "he was kindly, genial, humorous, a lover of a good story, the essence of hospitality, and wholly free from jealousy, malice, and incharitable judgments."His paintings are now represented in many museums in the United States and Europe.
ARTIST: George Henry Boughton (New York, United Kinggdom, 1833 - 1905) TITLE: Adulation MEDIUM: watercolor on paper. Paper applied to board. CONDITION: Some age toning. Normal wear to edges. ART SIZE: 24 x 16 inches / 60 x 40 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available) SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 132379 US Shipping $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Henry Boughton RA (4 December 1833 - 19 January 1905) was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.Boughton was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer William Boughton. The family immigrated to the United States in 1835, and he grew up in Albany, New York, where he started his career as a self-taught artist. He was influenced by the artists of the Hudson River School.By the age of 19, Boughton was recognized as a landscape painter and opened his first studio in 1852. In 1853, the American Art Union purchased one of his early pictures which financed six months of studying art in England. He concluded this period of his training with a sketching tour of the Lake District, Scotland, and Ireland.After returning to the U.S., Boughton exhibited his works in Washington, D.C. and New York City, but in the late 1850s he finally made a decision to move to Europe. From 1859-61 he studied art in France under Pierre Edouard Frere (1819-1886) and Edward Harrison May (1824-1887).In 1861, Boughton opened a studio in London. While living in England, he focused on subjects of early American colonial history, and an American critic noticed that "for early history of this country his talents seems to be peculiarly fitted." His subject-pictures, such as the Early Puritans of New England Going to Church (1867), were especially popular. The Return of the Mayflower (shown at the Goupil Gallery, New York in 1871) was praised as "a picture which will live as long as the memory of the Mayflower itself lasts."Vincent van Gogh, who lived London in 1873-75, was much impressed by Boughton's painting Godspeed! Pilgrims Setting Out for Canterbury. Then working as a minister, he gave a sermon inspired by the painting, and wrote about it to his brother Theo. The Boughton painting is now part of the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.Boughton illustrated Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poems. In 1893, the edition of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow was published in London with 53 illustrations by 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."Boughton exhibited extensively in both Britain and the U.S. and was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1871. He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1879, and a Royal Academician (RA) in 1896. "He was a useful and popular member of this body, and worked well as member of the council, as a 'hanger', and as a teacher in the schools." After the death of John Callcott Horsley, Boughton was elected a Director of the "Fine Art and General Insurance Company".Among his landscape paintings - views of England and Brittany in France. In 1883, he travelled to Holland. His illustrated account of that journey was published in the Harper's Magazine as 'Artist Strolls in Holland', and published next year in London as Sketching Rambles in Holland (see bibliography).Boughton obviously took pleasure in writing: later he would participate in the publication of the 'English Art in the Public Galleries of London' providing the overview of George Morland's biography and work.Boughton easily socialised in London artistic circles and was a member of the Arts Club (1869-96), of the Reform Club, the Athenaeum Club, the Burlington Fine Arts Club and the Grolier and Lotos Clubs in New York.In 1865, Boughton married Katherine Louise Cullen (1845-after 1901), and they had an adopted daughter, Florence. Along with John Callcott Horsley, he was one of the early clients of architect Richard Norman Shaw who built a house for the Boughtons on Campden Hill, London. "The parties given here by Mr and Mrs Boughton were celebrated among artistic and literary people and in the Anglo-American section of the society."It was noticed that Boughton was influenced by works of British painter and illustrator Frederick Walker (1840-1875). In the 1870s in London he met James Whistler. In 1878, an American reviewer praised them as "shining lights in the art world" of London. Boughton published vivid recollections about Whistler, particularly mentioning his work on the famous 'Peacock Room'. In 1877 he made an acquaintance 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 affair with Boughton. The novel Christina Chard (1894) by Mrs Rosa Campbell-Praed (1851-1935), an Australian novelist, was dedicated to Boughton, because he had suggested the idea of the book.Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, he was associated with several artistic colonies in countryside, namely with the village of Broadway in Worcestershire, the rustic beauty of which was recognised by many American artists. Along with Henry James, Edwin Abbey, John Singer Sargent and others, he frequently visited Broadway. Through Horsley and Shaw he also was associated with the Cranbrook Colony of artists, visiting them in the late 1860s-1880s.Boughton died of heart disease, on 19 January 1905, in his studio at Campden Hill, north London. His obituary stated that "he was kindly, genial, humorous, a lover of a good story, the essence of hospitality, and wholly free from jealousy, malice, and incharitable judgments."His paintings are now represented in many museums in the United States and Europe.
English/American, 1833-1905 River Landscape in Autumn Signed G. H. Boughton (lr) Oil on card mounted to panel 5 x 10 inches inpainting in all 4 corners.
Portrait of a Woman Reading Oil on canvas 18 x 12 inches (45.7 x 30.5 cm) (Frame dimensions: 21 1/2 x 16 inches) Canvas is relined. Frame rub with associated wear to the edges. No apparent restoration visible under UV light inspection. Few scattered marks of pigment, though these do not fluoresce under UV light.
Faint signature in the lower left. Depicting a man flattering a young woman. Title and artist notation on the verso. Framed H 24", W 32". Provenance: Property from a Bloomfield Township, MI private collection.
English 1833-1905 Landscape Initialed GHB (ll) Gouache on paper 6 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches (17.5 x 25.1 cm) The sheet is mounted to a support board; wear and losses at the edges; crease in the lower right corner.
Wouter Van Twiller's Court New Amsterdam Oil on canvas h. 24-1/4 w. 30 in. Backed with board, signed with initials "GHB" lower right overall: 29 x 34-3/4 in. (frame) [In Situ Item] This item will not be on display in our saleroom during our preview period. If you wish to view it in-person please make a request with the gallery.
Faint signature in the lower left. Depicting a man flattering a young woman. Title and artist notation on the verso. Framed H 24", W 32". Provenance: Property from a Bloomfield Township, MI private collection.
George Henry Boughton (American, 1833-1905). Oil on wood panel, woman fishing. Signed lower right G.H. Boughton. 17 3/8" x 11 1/4" (with frame 15 3/8" x 19 1/4"). Some crazing, paint loss upper left and along edges; repair to frame upper left corner, chips and losses to frame.
George Henry Boughton (American, 1833-1905). Oil on wood panel, woman fishing. Signed lower right G.H. Boughton. 17 3/8" x 11 1/4" (with frame 15 3/8" x 19 1/4"). Some crazing, paint loss upper left and along edges; repair to frame upper left corner, chips and losses to frame.
Wouter Van Twiller's Court New Amsterdam Oil on canvas Backed with board, signed with initials "GHB" lower right h. 24-1/4 w. 30 in. overall: 29 x 34-3/4 in. (frame) Remnant on back of picture with explanation of the scene: " The two parties being confront--------, each produced a book of accounts written in a manner and character that would have puzzled any but a high--------commentator or a learned decipherer of Egyptian obelisks to understand. The sage Wouter took them one after the other, and having poised them in his hands,and attentively counted over the number of leaves, fell straightway into a very great doubt. He smoked for half and hour without saying a word; at long while, with his finger beside his nose, and shutting his eyes for----with the air of a man who has just caught a subtle-----, he slowly took his pipe from his mouth, puffed forth a column of tobacco smoke, and, with marvelous gravity and solemnity, pronounced---that having carefully counted over the leaves and weighed the books, it was found that one was just as thick and heavy as the other; therefore, it was the final opinion of the court that the accounts were equally balanced--therefore, Wandle should give Barent a receipt, and Barent should give Wandle a receipt." Knickerbocker's History of New York [In Situ Item] This Item will not be on display in our saleroom during our preview period. If you wish to view it in-person please make a request with the gallery.
(New York/British, 1833-1905) Girl Gathering Roses, signed lower right "GH Boughton", oil on canvas, 21 x 11 in.; fine gilt wood and composition frame, 32-1/2 x 24-1/2 in. Provenance: Dave and Chris Knoke, Marietta, Georgia
Faint signature in the lower left. Depicting a man flattering a young woman. Title and artist notation on the verso. Framed H 24", W 32". Provenance: Property from a Bloomfield Township, MI private collection.
George Henry Boughton (1833-1905): Woman Gazing at the Sea oil on canvas, relined; signed with initials right center; 36 1/4 x 24 1/4 in. (92.1 x 61.6 cm.), Frame: 43 x 30 1/2 in. (109.2 x 77.5 cm.)
George Henry Boughton, RA, British / American 1833-1905- At the well; oil on canvas, 46.2 x 30.8 cm. Provenance: Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 6 February 1981, lot 121 (part). Private Collection, UK. Note: The artist repeatedly returned to the subject of young female figures in a natural setting, often as the personification of the seasons. Boughton's paintings generally present a somewhat romanticised image of rural labour, even when they are not explicitly allegorical, with the present work depicting a contemplative young figure lost in thought, in a dark and dreamy setting. Her pose, the drapery of her costume, and the jug, which is filled to the right, hint towards an element of Classicism.
Wouter Van Twiller's Court New Amsterdam Oil on canvas Backed with board, signed with initials "GHB" lower right h. 24-1/4 w. 30 in. overall: 29 x 34-3/4 in. (frame) Remant on back of picture with explanation of the scene: " The two parties being confront--------, each produced a book of accounts written in a manner and character that would have puzzled any but a high--------commentator or a learned decipherer of Egyptian obelisks to understand. The sage Wouter took them one after the other, and having poised them in his hands,and attentively counted over the number of leaves, fell straightway into a very great doubt. He smoked for half and hour without saying a word; at long while, with his finger beside his nose, and shutting his eyes for----with the air of a man who has just caught a subtle-----, he slowly took his pipe from his mouth, puffed forth a column of tobacco smoke, and, with marvelous gravity and solemnity, pronounced---that having carefully counted over the leaves and weighed the books, it was found that one was just as thick and heavy as the other; therefore, it was the final opinion of the court that the accounts were equally balanced--therefore, Wandle should give Barent a receipt, and Barent should give Wandle a receipt." Knickerbocker's History of New York
George H. Boughton, R.A. English/American, 1833-1905 A Stroll through the Woods Signed G.H. Boughton (ll) Oil on canvas 18 x 12 inches (45.7 x 30.5 cm) C
Property from a Private Collection, Savannah, GA Description: George Henry Boughton (British/American, 1833-1905), Indifference, Oil on Canvas, signed lower left, depicting two ladies and a gentleman walking in a field with geese, figures, and house in the distance, with old lot label 'Consignor # 35416, Item # 3' on verso, in a giltwood frame with artist plaque. Frame size: 25 1/4 in. x 43 in. Provenance: James D. Julia, Fairfield, Main, February 4th, 2011, lot 1244; Private collection, Hilton Head, South Carolina; Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut, October 26th, 2017, lot 154. Please note the painting was titled on original brass artist plaque when it was sold in 2011 at James D. Julia. George Henry Boughton was born in Norwich, England and emigrated to Albany, New York with his family as a young boy. He was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer. Today examples of his work can be found in the collections of numerous public and private collections including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; Tate Gallery, London; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, among others. (Tate.org) Measurements: Height: by sight 17 1/2 in. x Width: 35 1/4 in. Condition: Overall good condition, relined, small scattered spots of inpainting throughout, light wear to frame with some separation at corners.
George Henry Boughton (British/American, 1833-1905) Untitled (Dutch girl on the ice), oil painting on panel, signed lower right, partially effaced. Gilt wood frame. Size: 13'' x 9'', 33 x 23 cm (board); 21'' x 16.5'', 53 x 42 cm (frame). Provenance: Rifkin Fine Arts; Private Pennsylvania Collection.
George Henry Boughton, RA, British / American 1833-1905- Sunday Morning; oil on canvas, signed with initials and dated 'G.H.B. / 68' (lower left), 51.5 x 38.5 cm., (unframed). Provenance: The Executors of William Frederick Harris Esq. sale, Christie's, London, 4 June 1917, lot 158 (part) [15gns (£15 15s) to Good[en] & Fox]. Please refer to department for condition report
