John Boaden

English painter

John Boaden (1792/93 – 4 April 1839) was an English portrait painter.

Life

Boaden was the son of the theatre critic James Boaden and sister of playwright Caroline Boaden. A painter of portraits and theatrical subjects, he exhibited 40 works at the Royal Academy between 1810 and 1833, 90 at the British Institute between 1810 and 1839, and 59 at the Society of British Artists between 1827 and 1840 (in the last year posthumously).^[1]

Just six weeks after his father's death, Boaden died of "apoplexy" in London, aged 46.^[2]

External links

The Evening Star., a painting engraved by C. Marr for The Amulet annual, 1836, with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

References

^ ^a ^b "The Reverend Chauncey Hare Townshend". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
^ "Deaths". The Examiner. 14 April 1839. p. 13. Retrieved 24 December 2018.

Attribution:

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Boaden, John". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.