3-052-613 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Associates of the Royal Academy: Mr. G. H. Boughton, A.R.A., 1880. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Fradelle and Marshall. 'This painter - of most sympathetic, graceful mind, if rot perfect as an executant - was born in Norfolk, in 1836. His family went to America about 1839, and he spent some years at Albany, in New York, where, without masters, he began the study of art. He sold one of his earliest works to the American Art-Union in 1853. and on the proceeds came to London and pursued his art-studies here for several months...English pastoral scenes, with figures in idyllic combination, often from the life of oar great grandmothers and fathers, or from rural and "tramp" life in the present day, reminiscences of Breton peasant life, sweet female figures, and touching episodes from the early history of the New England Puritans, not unfrequently illustrative of Longfellow - these and other cognate subjects of pathos and gentle fancy have employed this artist's pencil and won him a reputation, which is at least as high on the other side of the Atlantic as on this. Mr. Boughton has frequently exhibited at the National Academy of New York, and was made a member of that Academy in 1871'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.