Frank-Myers Boggs was born in Springfield, Ohio on December 6, 1855 and died in Meudon (Hauts- de-Seine), France August 8, 1926. He was a painter, watercolorist and engraver. Boggs is an American-expatriate from the French school.

He received his formal training at the Beaux-Arts Academie under Jean Leon Gerome (1824-1904) in Paris. Boggs regularly exhibited at the Salon des Artists Francais where he was awarded Hors Concours (exceptional). At the Universal Exposition of 1889, Frank-Myers Boggs was awarded the Silver medal.

Boggs loved France which is witnessed through his atmospheric paintings of its streets, ports, and monuments. He paintings and watercolors placed the viewer on the banks of the Seine on a windy, stormy rain soaked day or on a cloudy spring day at the Marche de Puse. You may also find yourself walking through a small village just out side of Paris, ankle deep in the snow. He used Notre-Dame as a backdrop, as viewed looking up the Seine from quai de Bercy or down the Seine from Pont Royal. His spontaneous paintings lead you on a journey through Paris, down the grand boulevards and past the tour Eiffel. You walk by Les Halles and down the Seine by l'ancien Trocadero. He places you in the middle of the busy Place de Concorde looking up the Champs-Elysees at the Arc de Triomphe and then to the noisy train station. Boggs exposes his romance with Paris and France through the eyes of an artist having an affair. Boggs also painted Holland, Venice and Belgium. He painted the Ports in Normandy and La Rochelle. He found inspiration from quaint villages and markets.

The Boston Museum purchased the prize-winning painting "la Houle d'Honfleur" by Boggs's for $2,500 at the 1885 Universal Exposition exhibition in New York.

Museums:
Montreal Museum
Mulhouse
Nantes
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Boston Fine Art Museum
Luxembourg Museum

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton

Mixing Tonalist and Impressionist elements, Frank Myers Boggs forged a novel artistic style at the juncture of fin-de-siecle American and European traditions. Born in Ohio, Boggs trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Jean Leon Gerome and spent the majority of his life in Paris. There he accomplished the rare feat of gaining prominence in both the French and American art worlds. By the end of his life, Boggs had essentially transformed himself into a French Impressionist: he became a French citizen in 1923 and earned the French Legion of Honor three years later. Over the course of his career, Boggs painted harbor views of Holland, England, and France in addition to his celebrated street scenes of the Parisian quotidien. His works demonstrate an acute sensitivity to atmosphere and light and a tendency toward damp surfaces rain-flecked streets and foggy skies that allow a greater range of reflective effects. This interest in delicate, fleeting impressions aligned Boggs with the leading Impressionists of the day, Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, and Eugne Boudin, with whom he associated in Paris. Yet his subtle, tonal palette and consideration of volumetric form distinguish his work from Impressionist convention. Several authors have suggested that Boggs's sober palette derives from the influence of Johan Barthold Jongkind, a Dutch painter whose work served as a significant precursor to Impressionism. Like Boggs, Jongkind spent most of his life in Paris, where he influenced a young Monet. Boggs's work is the next link in the chain of influence running from Jongkind to Monet to the United States. His paintings exemplify the complex circuit of cultural interplay that affected American art at the turn of the century, when droves of American artists studied in Paris and cosmopolitan collectors acquired a growing taste for contemporary French art and its American interpretation. Boggs won a prize from the American Art Association in 1884 and silver medals from the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889 and the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. His paintings are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as well as the Reunion des Musees Nationaux of Paris, the Luxembourg Museum, and the Museum of Nantes in France.

Biography courtesy of Questroyal Fine Art LLC, www.antiquesandfineart.com/questroyal