Dieppe – The Artists – Boys, Thomas Shotter – Travel Information and Tips for France

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

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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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1839 - Thomas Shotter Boys - Tour de Remi — 1839 – Thomas Shotter Boys – Tour de Remi

TODAY: This is the St Remi tower of the Dieppe Castle.

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TODAY: The Castle of Dieppe still exists today, and is highly visible throughout the city since it’s perched up high on the cliffs overlooking the city.

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

Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes
- Alba-la-Romaine
- Viviers
Hauts-de-France
- Abbeville
- Saint-Omer
Normandy
- Bayeux ⇠
- Caudebec-en-Caux (surrounding only) ⇠
  - Jumieges ⇠
- Dieppe ⇠
- Le Treport
- Rouen
- Trouville-sur-Mer ⇠
Occitanie
- Aigues-Mortes
- Cahors
- Lodeve
- Nimes
- Rodez
- Saint-Cere
- Souillac
- Villeneuve-les-Maguelone

Dieppe in Normandy was a popular place for artists to come and apply their art. Here is a list, non exhaustive, of the artists that painted in Dieppe.

A link (“⇠”) to the artist’s works will appear when published (a “*” indicates that the artist did not work directly in Dieppe, instead worked in nearby villages):

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Dieppe – The Artists – Montague, Alfred
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Alfred Montague (1832 - 1883) was a British painter born in London. Not much, if anything, is known about this British artist. Here are his works for Dieppe, Normandy.
Dieppe – The Artists – Weber, Theodore Alexander
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Theodore Alexander Weber (1838 - 1907) was born in Leipzig, Germany and died in Paris, France. He was a German painter who took the French nationality in 1878. Here are his works for Dieppe, Normandy.
Dieppe – The Artists – Dubourg, Louis-Alexandre
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Louis-Alexandre Dubourg is a French painter, born and died in Honfleur. He worked as a commercial agent, painting as a serious hobby. It was only after meeting with a professional artist that he decided to paint for a living. He mostly painted cities in Normandy. Here's the one work for…
Dieppe – The Artists – Hardy, Thomas Bush
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Thomas Bush Hardy (1842 – 1897) was a British marine painter and watercolorist. Hardy was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire on 3 May 1842. As a young man he travelled in the Netherlands and Italy. Here is the 1 painting of his we found which he made in Dieppe, Normandy.
Dieppe – The Artists – Vernet, Claude-Joseph
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Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714 – 1789) was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter. Here are his paintings he made in Dieppe, Normandy.

Dieppe – The Artists – Boys, Thomas Shotter

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