Thomas Shotter Boys

Caudebec-en-Caux – The Artists – Boys, Thomas Shotter

This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who worked in Caudebec-en-Caux. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.

NOTE: Caudebec-en-Caux has recently merged (2016) with other towns nearby and is now called “Rives-en-Seine“. However, since the artists called the town by its original name in their paintings, we will continue to refer to the place by its old name.

Thomas Shotter Boys
Thomas Shotter Boys

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Thomas Shotter Boys (1803–1874) was an English watercolour painter and lithographer. Thomas was born at Pentonville, London, on 2 January 1803. He was articled to the engraver George Cooke.

When his apprenticeship came to an end he went to Paris where he met and came under the influence of Richard Parkes Bonington, who persuaded him to abandon engraving for painting.

Some sources describe him as a pupil of Bonington, although William Callow, who later shared a studio with him in Paris, disputed this.

His most important work, Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen, etc., a collection of colour lithographs, appeared in 1839, attracting a great deal of admiration.

Drawn on the stone by Boys and printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, it was described in a review in the Polytechnic Journal as “the first successful effort in chroma-lithography [sic] hitherto brought to perfection“. King Louis-Philippe sent the artist a ring in recognition of its merits.

Click here to read his full bio on Wikipedia.

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NOTE: To our knowledge, Boys did not work in Caudebec-en-Caux itself, but instead worked in nearby Jumieges.

Jumieges

The village of Jumieges (population: 1,800) is dominated by its abbey (in ruins), and it is located to the South/East of Caudebec-en-Caux and to the West of Rouen.

???? - Thomas Shotter Boys - Jumieges
???? – Thomas Shotter Boys – Jumieges

Boys painted several places in Normandy, which will be featured eventually on this site. A link “” to those cities will appear below when published.

Artists featured here who painted in Caudebec-en-Caux (but not limited to) are (names marked with a “*” indicates that the artist did NOT work directly in Caudebec, instead worked in villages nearby):

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