Frank Boggs

Along the Seine, Paris

Frank Myers Boggs (born December 6, 1855 in Springfield , Ohio , † August 8, 1926 in Meudon , Hauts-de-Seine ) was a French painter of American origin.

Boggs came to New York as an art student at a young age . In 1881 he went to Europe on the recommendation of his teachers and settled in Paris . He kept his studio, which he had already set up in New York, and came to this city regularly for most of his life to paint.

In Paris, Boggs began to study art again at the École des Beaux-Arts and became a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme . In 1889 Boggs was honored with a silver medal at the World Exhibition in Paris.

In 1920 Boggs went to Grasse to paint in the hometown of Jean-Honoré Fragonard . In addition to his stays in New York, Boggs also regularly traveled through the Netherlands for study purposes.

At the suggestion of Prime Minister Alexandre Millerand , Boggs was granted French citizenship in 1923. Later, Boggs and his family settled in Meudon near Paris and set up a very spacious atelier under the roof.

The painter Frank M. Boggs died at the age of 70 on August 8, 1926 in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine. Boggs was accepted into the Legion of Honor posthumously.

The painter Frank William Boggs (1900–1950), who became known under the pseudonym Frank Will, was his son.

Works (selection)

• Port entrance of Marseille (1882)
• The Seine in Paris
• The Quai Voltaire
• Amsterdam
• Storm on the coast

literature

• Alexandre Arsène: Frank Boggs , Le Gougy, Paris 1929
• Michael Quick (Ed.): America expatriate painters of the late 19th. century . Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio 1976
• Helene B. Weinberg: The American pupils of Jean-Leon Gerome . Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Tx. 1984, ISBN 0-88360-049-8
• Helene B. Weinberg: Americans in Paris, 1850-1910. The academx, the salon, the studio and the srtists' colony . Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City 2003, ISBN 0-911919-00-7

Web links

Commons : Frank Boggs  - collection of images, videos and audio files