Thomas Shotter Boys NWS (British, 1803-1874) Coast scene, Havre; Coast scene, Trouville, Normandy ((2)) image 1

Lot 9

Thomas Shotter Boys NWS
(British, 1803-1874)
Coast scene, Havre; Coast scene, Trouville, Normandy

19th Century European, Victorian and British Impressionist Art

2 March 2016, 14:00 GMT

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £5,625 inc. premium

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Thomas Shotter Boys NWS (British, 1803-1874)

Coast scene, Havre; Coast scene, Trouville, Normandy
a pair, one signed and dated 'T S Boys/1830' (lower left), the other signed and dated 'T Boys. 1830.' (lower right), each signed and inscribed with title and artist's address on label on reserve
oil on board, each
20 x 25.5cm (7 7/8 x 10 1/16in).
(2)

Footnotes

Exhibited
London, Suffolk Street, Exhibition of the Society of British Artists, 1830, cat. no. 390 and 413

These two French beach scenes were painted before Boys had reached thirty and a few years after the death in 1828 of his greatest influence, Richard Parkes Bonington. They are testament to the artistic debt owed by Boys to Bonington but also show signs of the talent that would propel Boys to such great artistic heights. Any examples of Boys' work is rare but oils all the more so. It would be in more topographical and architectural watercolours that he would make his name but he shows great facility with the oil medium and the compositions of both works show an artist thinking about figure groups and their placement within the composition, a quality that would bring his townscapes to life.

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