Frank Myers-Boggs
(Springfield, Ohio, USA 1855 – 1926 Meudon, France)
“A windmill by the water in Sliedrecht”, 1902
Watercolor: 27 x 33 cm
Signed and dated ‘Frank – Boggs, Sliedrecht 1902’ (l.l.)
Notes
Frank Myers Boggs (Springfield, December 6, 1855 - Meudon, August 8, 1926) was an American-French painter. He often worked in the Netherlands.
Boggs moved to New York at an early age to pursue art studies. In 1881 he left for Paris, while he kept his studio in New York for a few more years, only to return there regularly. In the French capital, he studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts under the neoclassical teacher Jean-Léon Gérôme, but he was mainly influenced by Impressionism. He exhibited at the Paris Salon. In 1889 he won a silver medal at the Paris World Fair.
Boggs traveled regularly to Normandy, Belgium, but especially to the Netherlands, which he visited more than twenty times. He usually worked in Dordrecht or Rotterdam, but also in Amsterdam, The Hague, Zwijndrecht, Overschie, Delft, Kinderdijk and Hoorn. He mainly painted river landscapes and harbor views. Stylistically, his work shows a resemblance to that of Johan Barthold Jongkind.
In 1920 Boggs settled in Grasse and later in Meudon. In 1923 he was granted French citizenship. He died in 1926, at the age of seventy, and was buried in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise. He was posthumously included in the French Legion of Honor. His son Frank-Will also became a painter.
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Category
French 19th - 20th century
landscape