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 Getting under Sail, The Meuse before Dordrecht (1885).

BOUGH, SAMUEL, born at Carlisle, Scotland, in 1822, died in Edinburgh, Nov. 1878. Landscape painter, self-taught; removed to Edinburgh in 1855; A.R.S.A. in 1857, R.S.A. in 1875. Works: Shipbuilding on the Clyde; Kirkwall; London from Shooter's Hill; St. Monaw's; Winton Castle; Ben Nevis.

BOUGHTON, GEORGE HENRY, born near Norwich, England, in 1834. Genre painter; taken when three years old to America by his parents, who settled in Albany, N. Y. Self-taught; in 1853 made a sketching tour through the English Lake country, Scotland, and Ireland. In 1858 he removed from Albany to New York, two years later went to Paris, and in 1861 fixed his residence in London, where he has since remained. His Passing into the Shade, exhibited at British Institution, and his Through the Fields and Hop-Pickers Returning, Royal Academy, 1863, attracted considerable attention. Elected N.A. in 1871 and A.R.A. in 1879. His works are popular, and many of them have been engraved. Works: Last of the Mayflower, Breton Pastoral (1868); Age of Gallantry (1870); Colder than Snow, Chapter from Pamela (1871); Heir Presumptive (1873); Canterbury Pilgrims (1874); Grey Days, Bearers of the Burden (1875); Homeward, Snow in Spring (1877); Priscilla, Widow's Acre, Resting-Place (1879); Evangeline, Omnia Vincit Amor (1880); Rose Standish, Dutch Seaside Resort, Island of Murken—Zuyder Zee (1881); Burgomaster's Daughter, Weeders of the Pavement, Autumnal Ramble by the Spey (1882); Peace-maker, Sacred Mistletoe (1883); Milton visited by Andrew Marvell, On the Spey, Salmon-Fishing (1885). Works in United States: Dismal Swamp, August Belmont, New York; Idyl, Samuel Hawk Collection, New York; Pride and Humility, Break, Break, Break, Peasant Interior—Brittany, J. H. Warren, Hoosac Falls, N. Y.; Widow's Garden, Th. B. Clark, New York; Gipsy Children, R. G. Dun, New York; Indian Summer, R. C. Taft, Providence; Girl's Head, J. A. Brown, Providence; Duel from "Twelfth Night," J. Carey Coale, Baltimore; Winter, C. H. Wolff, Philadelphia; March of Miles Standish (1869), Going to Seek his Fortune, G. Whitney, ib.; Puritan Soldier, J. G. Fell, ib.; Skipper's Watch, W. B. Bement, ib.; Fisher Girl, H. G. Marquand, New York; Flower Girl, J. P. Morgan, New York; Spring—Return of the Swallows, Autumn—Departure of the Swallows, Winter—Dead Swallows, M. K. Jessup, New York; Puritans going to Church (1867), Winter Scene near Albany, Normandy Girl, Mrs. R. L. Stuart, New York; Queen Mary, Wife of the Conqueror, Going to Church, C. P. Huntington, New York; Rosamond's Poisoner, F. Harper, New York; Enoch Arden and Annie Lee, End of Maying, Leaving Home, Down by the River, The Waif, Puritan Maiden going to Church, Edict of William the Testy (original study), C. S. Smith, New York; Return of the Mayflower, F. Rogers, Philadelphia; Waning Honeymoon, Venus and Adonis, W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Comin' through the Rye, L. Tuckerman, New York; Edict of William the Testy (1877), Corcoran Gallery, Washington.—Art Journal (1873), 41; Meynell, 21; Portfolio (1871), 67.

BOUGUEREAU, (WILLIAM) ADOLPHE, born at La Rochelle, Nov. 30, 1825. French school; history and genre painter; pupil of Picot, and from 1843 of École des Beaux Arts. Won the grand prix de Rome in 1850, and while a pensioner in that city sent several pictures to Paris which were much admired. On his return to Paris he was entrusted with important decorative works in public buildings, and in 1866 painted Apollo