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John Boaden

John Boaden was an English portrait painter.

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Portrait by Boaden of the Rev. Chauncy Hare Townshend in the Victoria and Albert Museum1 source ↗

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

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

Attribution:

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, 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.