Bayeux – The Artists – Boggs, Frank Myers
This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who worked in Bayeux. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.
Frank Boggs (1855 – 1926) was an American (and later French) painter (born in the USA, died in France). He studied art in Paris, and travelled between France (Normandy), The Netherlands, Italy and Belgium.
He naturelized to French citizenship. He is buried at the Pere-Lachaise cemetery next to his artist son (Frank-Will Boggs) in Paris.
Click here to read Boggs’ full bio (in French only) on Wikipedia.
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NOTE: To our knowledge, Boggs did not work in Bayeux itself, but instead worked in nearby Grandcamp.
Grandcamp-Maisy
The town of Grandcamp-Maisy (population: 1,630) lies to the North/West of Bayeux along the coast.
Here are the places in France that Boggs painted in (a link “⇠” to his works in these cities will appear below when that city is online):
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Azay-le-Rideau
- Chartres
- Dreux
- Tours
- Hauts-de-France
- Amiens
- Abbeville
- Noyon
- Normandy
- Bayeux (surrounding only) ⇠
- Caen (and surroundings)⇠
- Caudebec-en-Caux ⇠
- Cherbourg (surrounding only) ⇠
- Deauville ⇠
- Dieppe ⇠
- Fecamp ⇠
- Trouville-sur-Mer
- Veules-les-Roses (surrounding only)
- Saint-Valery-en-Caux
- Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur
Artists featured on our site who painted in Bayeux (but not limited to) are (a “*” indicates that the artist did not work directly in Bayeux, instead worked in a nearby town):
- 🇺🇸 Boggs, Frank Myers * ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Boys, Thomas Shotter ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Burgess Jr, John ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Cotman, John Sell ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Letellier, Emile-Andre ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Seurat, Georges * ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Signac, Paul * ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Thorigny, Felix ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Valtat, Louis * ⇠
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