Frank Myers Boggs Art for Sale at Auction

Painter, Etcher, b. 1855 - d. 1926

(b Springfield, OH, 1855; d Meudon, France, 1926) American Painter. Frank Myers Boggs was an American painter who moved to Paris and became a naturalized French citizen. In 1877 he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme and from 1880 onwards he exhibited regularly at the Salon.* The artist showed his love for the city by depicting its monuments, the Seine river and the scenes of Paris in an Impressionist manner. He also painted the sea and the small harbors of the Normandie region in France as well as Belgium and Netherlands. *(Credit: Christie’s, New York, Impressionist and Modern Day Sale, November 4, 2004, Lot 283)