William Benton Boggs, a landscape painter who worked in oil, watercolor and pencil, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His family had strong military tradition, and he studied in Middletown, Connecticut at Captain Partridge's Military School. He spent much of his life in the Navy and had official duties as an artist during his naval employment.
After completing his education, he worked in New York City in the late 1830s and early 1840s for the Phoenix Bank and during this period pain (showing 500 of 3676 characters). |
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