Artist: Thomas Shotter Boys (1803 - 1874)
Nationality: British
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Media: Engraving
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Biography:
Thomas Shotter Boys began his career in France in 1825 and remained there in 1837. While there, he made the acquaintance of Bonington who influenced him to take up watercolors. In 1839, Boys published a collection of multicolored lithographed urban scenes. Despite his talent, Boys’s career declined in the second half of the 1840’s.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Treves, 1838
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Huy, on the Meuse, 1838
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Byloke, Ghent, 1838
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Regent Street, Looking towards the Quadrant, 1842
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Chapel of the Institute, Paris, 1838
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Thomas Shotter Boys, St. Andre, Chartres, 19th century
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Laon Cathedral, 19th century
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Thomas Shotter Boys, The Church of St. Mathias, Treves, 1838
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Palais de Justice, Liege, 1838
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Bridge on the Moselle Coblentz, 1838
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Rue Notre Dame, Paris, 1838
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Belfry in Ghent, 19th century
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Roche Bayard on the Meuse, 1838
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Thomas Shotter Boys, The Club House, etc Pall Mall, 1842
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Thomas Shotter Boys, St. Laurent, Rouen, 19th century
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Thomas Shotter Boys, La Sainte Chapelle, Paris, 19th century
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Hotel de Sens, Paris, 19th century
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Thomas Shotter Boys, The Church of St. Etienne Du Mont, Paris, 1838
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Thomas Shotter Boys, St. Etienne Du Mont and The Pantheon, Paris, 1838
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Abbey of St. Amand, Rouen, 19th century
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Cathedral and Ancient Gateway, Huy on the Meuse, 1838
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Church of St. Severin, Paris, 19th century
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Pavillon de Flore, Louvre, Paris, 1838
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Thomas Shotter Boys, South Porch of Charles Cathedral, 19th century
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Notre Dame, Paris, from the Quai St. Bernard, 1838
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Hotel de Ville (City Hall), Arras, 19th century
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Landscape with a Lockgate, circa 1833
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Left: Fishmarket in Antwerp / Right: Hospice des Veillards (Old Men"s Home), Ghent, 19th century
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Left: Hotel de la Tremouille, Rue des Bourdonnais, Paris / Right: Veille Rue du Temple, Paris, 19th century
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Left: Porte Rouge, Notre Dame, Paris / Right: Doorway of Hotel, Rue des Marmousets, Paris, 19th century
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Door Heads from Ca" Contarini, Porta di Ferro and in Campo S. Margarita - Examples of the Architecture of Venice by John Ruskin;, 1851
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Titlepage - Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen - The Remains of the Old Church of the Madeleine, Rue de la Licorne, Paris, 19th century
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Thomas Shotter Boys, Titlepage - Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen - The Remains of the Old Church of the Madeleine, Rue de la Licorne, Paris, 19th century
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Thomas Nast, Boys Will Be Boys, 1877
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Bartolome Esteban Murillo - St. Thomas of Villanueva Dividing His Clothes Among Beggar Boys c. 1667 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum Spanish
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Thomas Barker - Shepherd Boys and Dog Sheltering from a Storm c. 1789-1790 oil on paper on canv National Gallery of Art British
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Lisa Klausner - Boys 1989 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Alexander Grinager - Boys Bathing 1894 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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Edmund Blampied, "Come on Boys!", 1921
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Choki, Two Boys Playing Cat"s Crade, circa 1795

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Textile Museum of Canada: Boys with Needles: David Grenier, Neil MacInnis, Thomas Roach and Patrick Traer
On March 19 at 7:00 pm, Toronto-based visual artist and writer R.M. Vaughan will be reading selections of his poetry in response to the Boys with Needles exhibition. Vaughan is the author of two books of poetry, a novel, and numerous plays; and is...
New Museum of Contemporary Art: Jacqueline Fraser: A Portrait of the Lost Boys
The beauty and fragility of the materials contrast sharply with the harsh subject matter of the work. Through the story of the premature death of a local New Zealand boy, accompanying texts address the disenfranchisement of youth in society today....
South African National Gallery: Jane Alexander Installations Featured in Solo Exhibition
The impact of Butcher Boys, a life-size "trio of malevolent figures ... with ripped-open spines" is so immense that it is famous even to those with little knowledge of art. In fact, it was Butcher Boys that established Alexander as an artist, o...
Old Boys Network: Very Cyberfeminist International
Cyberfeminism is not a game without borders, but a dealing with borders that is taken seriously; a work on the boundaries of that 'contested zone', in which the so-called real and virtual diverge; which mines utopias of transgression and works to ...
Tom Blau Gallery: The Reading Room: Denis Doran
Denis Doran's memories of rainy afternoons spent as a young boy in a reference library on the North East coast of England have inspired his latest body of work. Although he now lives in Brighton, he is increasingly ...
Groundfloor Gallery: Ella Dreyfus: Under Twelves
Dreyfus is well-known for her photographic works which have received national attention and critical acclaim; her previous exhibitions include Pregnancy Series (1992), The Body Pregnant (Penguin Books 1993), Age and Consent (1999) and Transman (...
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: Patricia Piccinini: We Are Family
Might these be a warning against the unbridled development of biotechnology? The artist invites us to step away from socially imprinted ideas concerning “normality” and to bring a humorous and radical perspective in considering the large ethical q...
Boston Institute of Contemporary Art: Rineke Dijkstra: Portraits

Artangel: Giya Kancheli: Imber
For three nights over August Bank Holiday, Imber will finally lay its past to rest – the result of a three year-long project commissioned by Artangel with the support of the British Army and the Diocese of Salisbury. Transformed by a special...
Towner Gallery: Eric Lesdema: The Great Escape
His new work collapses traditional boundaries between photography and installation, art and craft, high and low culture and aesthetics and utility. The gallery itself is transformed into a kind of laboratory in which the viewer is invited to o...
Wallflower Gallery: Photography Exhibition, Aeric Moskowitz
In addition, Moskowitz will be displaying an Everglades photography series with distinctive close-ups and expansive landscapes. As a Color Photography Exhibition, Aeric Moskowitz will present this series of distinguished photographs through Satur...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes, and Rage
Hip-Hop Nation will showcase clothing and accessories worn by artists such as Afrika Bambaataa, Run-DMC, The Beastie Boys, Salt N' Pepa, Tupac Shakur, Puff Daddy, Eminem, and Missy Ell...
Le Petit Marrais: Lou Posner: Inaugural Exhibition
 The founder of Le Petit Marrais says, "This new cultural space is named after the famous Marrais district in Paris where some of today's most important cultural events take place and which is a meeting-place for famous painters, writers, musician...
John Connelly Presents: Hug and Magnan: Boys Gone Wild
USA Today, an on-going project by HUG & MAGNAN, acts as the centerpiece of the show. The work is composed of “caption heads”, which are images of public figures and publicized ordinary citizens summarized in a quick, abstract statements appropriat...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Passages: Photographs in Africa by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher
Among the images in the exhibition are coming of age ceremonies for Maasai boys in Kenya and Krobo girls in Ghana; an extraordinary stick fight for brides among the Surma of southwestern Ethiopia; and wedding adornment for Himba brides in nort...
Physics Room: rear window: Emily Harris; Gala Kirke; Richard Lewer
All this voyeurism and curtain pulling allows connections and obsessions to develop with unknown people, whether based in reality or fantasy, or somewhere in between. Using techniques that reference popular media (reality television, E! Channel, c...
Dulwich Picture Gallery: The Golden Age of Watercolours : The Hickman Bacon Collection
Sir Hickman Bacon had unusual tastes for his time. The collection is especially strong in the type of late, ethereal Turner watercolour that only became widely popular with the advent of abstract painting in the 1940s and 50s. The works by Girtin ...
Helsinki City Art Museum: Duck lithographs - Marko Leppala's collection
Carl Barks made his career first at the Disney studios and, from 1942, as a cartoonist for Western Publishing which had a license to publish Disney comics. In the early 1940s Donald Duck was still a lazy, incoherently quacking hothead. Barks...
photoza: Photographics by Bruce Mortimer
Bruce believes in a balanced approach to his work, remaining directly involved in the production and marketing of his photographs, and spending time doing both professional and personal activities which often involve his wife and family. His three...
Van Gogh Museum: Fred Holland Day: Symbolist Photographer
It was in the 1880s that Day became interested in photography. Like the so-called Pictorialist group, he felt that photography was an art form too. Day even photographed religious subjects which had until then been the sole province of painters ...
24 HR Art - Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art: Swamp Dynamics: an installation  by Bronwyn Wright
This is not just a recording of a particular landscape but rather an emersion into an ecosystem and its inhabitants.  The exhibition presents a images of an unusual confluence of the artist, the environment, and the subculture of car hoons, who us...
Tower Records: Ben Woodeson: Window Pain Project II, Picadilly Radio

Location One: Somnambulic: Recent Sculpture, Videos and Photographs by Martin Beauregard
Wake Up Teddy! is a giant stuffed toy whose fur is made from the real skin of a bear: reality and fiction coming together in one object. Jewel in the Head shows a trophy-like moose whose horns have been plated in silver, namely the materializati...
Hales Gallery: Hew Locke: Natives and Colonials
Having completed an MA in sculpture at the Royal College and shown his large sculpture ‘Hemmed In Two’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum, he returned to his past fascination with all things Royal. Locke began to see the Royal Family as a vehi...
BAT Centre: Tswelonala: Paintings and Sculptures by Vincent Tshulupi / Prints and Paintings by Plumber Mbokazi
Born in 1974 in Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape, Vincent Tshulupi discovered his artistic flair while at the Mariazell Mission School in Matatiele. Like so many other boys, Tshulupi developed a strong interest in modelling cows out of river clay a...
Southeast Museum of Photography: Photojournalism from James Nachtwey, Robert Lerner and John Cohen
A Lens To The World - Photographs by Robert Lerner This retrospective exhibition surveys Bob Lerner's work for Look magazine during its heyday in the fifties and sixties. During his career Lerner photographed throughout the world and in all ...
Maine Artists Space, Danforth Gallery: Just Rewards: Steffi Greenbaum, Jon King, John A. LeBlanc, Jan Pieter van Voorst van Beest
John LeBlanc:
The Pastel paintings that will be showing at the Danforth Gallery are characterized by an animated style somewhere between abstraction and realism. Vibrant colors, and tapestry like texture give the pieces dynamism. Within these...
Sherborne House and Gallery Holt: Past Perfect: Savage, Sonia Hanney and Adam Dade, Shrimpton and Bolas, Paul McGowan
Past Perfect is presented in two venues, Sherborne House and Gallery Holt in Sherborne Boys School. Savage  An old chair that looks from a distance as if it is covered in green velvet, on closer inspection reveals it is in fact covered in ...
RICE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: CLUBS OF BAMAKO
The late 1950s and early 1960s marked the end of colonial rule for much of Africa. With this new freedom came a reexamination of the basis for national and cultural identities that were hybrids of African and Western influences. Malick Sidibé's...
Transition: Hans in Transition: Paintings by Hans Scheirl
"For Hans in Transition I plan to create a dynamic between self-portraits from that time and my new work, which is more abstract, more graphic design and comix inspired." "Staging myself as a man and staging myself as a painter is juxtaposed...

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