George Henry Boughton

George Henry Boughton RA was an AngloAmerican landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.

Boughton was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer William Boughton. The family emigrated to the United States in 1835, and he grew up in Albany, New York where he started his career as a selftaught artist. At this early stage he was influenced by the artists of the Hudson River School. By the age ofhe was recognised 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.

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