Alice Boughton

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Alice Boughton (born May 14, 1867 (after 1865, after 1866) in Brooklyn , † June 21, 1943 in Brookhaven , New York) was an American photographer and painter. Her photographs are assigned to pictorialism .

life and work

Boughton, daughter of the married couple William H. Boughton and Frances Ayers, grew up in Brooklyn. Her father worked as a lawyer. She studied painting at the Pratt Institute in New York and in Paris. The personal circumstances of Boughton as an adult are partly unclear. Here and there in photographic literature it is stated that she had two children. However, no evidence of a birth or marriage has become known. According to a contemporary obituary published in Long Island Advance, she left only a brother, two nieces and a nephew. She was also referred to in this as Miss Boughton. However, there is evidence that from 1920 at the latest she lived at the same address as the artist and art teacher Ida Haskell (* 1861, † 1932), without it being known what kind of relationship the two women might have had.

Boughton opened his own portrait studio in New York in 1890. But she also worked as a darkroom assistant for Gertrude Käsebier . Her customers included numerous artistic personalities, such as George Arliss , John Drinkwater , Adeline Genée , Myra Hess , Roger Fry and Jack Butler Yeats . A photograph made by her around 1890 served John Singer Sargent as a template for his posthumous portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson , created in 1897 .

Alice Boughton's work does not only include portraits. She also gained fame through her landscape pictures, studies of children and the female nudes recorded against an allegorical or naturalistic background.

Boughton was a member of the Photo Secession . In 1909 some of her pictures appeared in the journal Camera Work, edited and co-authored by Alfred Stieglitz . She was able to publish a selection of her portrait photographs in 1928 by Avondale Press, New York, under the title Photographing the Famous .

Works by Alice Boughton are part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British National Portrait Gallery in London, the US National Portrait Gallery in Washington and the George Eastman House in Rochester , New York.

Picture gallery

Web links

Commons : Alice Boughton  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website The Hamlet People, accessed on October 10, 2011 (English) with reference to Boughton's own entry in a passenger list
  2. ↑ Website of the National Portrait Gallery, London, accessed October 10, 2011 (English)
  3. ↑ a b obituary in the Long Iceland Advance of 23 June 1943 reproduced on the site Brookhaven / South Haven Hamlets, accessed 10 October 2011 (English)
  4. ↑ site The Hamlet People, accessed 10 October 2011 (English)
  5. ↑ Judith Fryer Davivdov: Women's camerawork: self / body / Other in American Visual Culture. Duke University Press, Durham, New York 1998, p. 84.
  6. ↑ Judith Fryer Davivdov: Women's camerawork: self / body / Other in American Visual Culture. Duke University Press, Durham, New York 1998, p. 82
  7. ↑ Website of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / collectionsonline.lacma.org  
  8. ^ Leslie Furth: John Singer Sargent and Robert Louis Stevenson. In: Magazines Antiques, November 2004 ( Memento from December 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ site of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accessed 11 October 2011 (English)
  10. ↑ PDF of the Smithsonian Institute, accessed on October 11, 2011 ( memento of the original from December 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.npg.si.edu
  11. ^ Website of the George Eastman House, accessed on October 11, 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.eastmanhouse.org  
personal data
SURNAME Boughton, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1943
Place of death Brookhaven (New York)