Painting Of Neauphle-le-château By Frank Boggs

This watercolor is a pretty view of Neauphle-le-Château in 1903. With its precise and firm touch and its rich nuances under a cloudy sky, it is typical of the work of Frank Boggs, very popular with the general public of his time.

Born Frank Myers Boggs in 1855 in Springfield (Ohio), he became a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and exhibited regularly at the Salon des artistes français. He received several distinctions there as well as a silver medal at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1889.

Also an engraver, he decorated ceramic dishes by Théodore Deck. Naturalized French in 1923, he died in Meudon in 1926 and is buried in Père-Lachaise. Frank Boggs, who loved rivers, bridges, cities and especially Paris but also La Rochelle, the Netherlands and Venice.

His son Frank William Boggs (1900-1951), who signed Frank Will, was also a painter.