BOUGHTON, GEORGE HENRY Anglo American painter, born near Norwich, England, and brought up at Albany, N.Y. He studied art in Paris in 1861-62, and then lived mainly in London; he was much influenced by Frederick Walker, and the delicacy and grace of his pictures soon made his reputation. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in New York in 1871, an A.R.A. in 1879, and R.A. in 1896. His pictures of Dutch life and scenery were especially characteristic ; and his subject-pictures, such as "Weeding the Pavement" (Tate Gallery, London), "The Road to Camelot" (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), "Golden Afternoon, the Isle of Wight" (Metropolitan Museum, New York), and "When the Dead Leaves Fall" (Municipal Gallery, Rome), had a great suc cess. Boughton also executed many fine book illustrations, notably those for Rip van Winkle (1893) and, for the Grolier Club of New York, Knickerbocker History (1886). He died in London on Jan. i9, 1905.
See articles by S. Colvin, The Portfolio (1871) , and by A. L. Baldry (Art. Journal, Christmas number, 1904).