Le Havre – The Artists – Boggs, Frank Myers – Travel Information and Tips for France

This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who painted in Le Havre. 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.

We apologize for the quality of several of the photos below since the original image was very small and we had to resize it.

NOTE: A blackbox like this one, means that there is an explanation text about today’s situation of the painting above it.
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1880 Frank Boggs -The arrival of boats at Le Havre

???? Frank Boggs - At Le Havre — ???? Frank Boggs – At Le Havre

???? Frank Boggs - Harbour of Le Havre — ???? Frank Boggs – Harbour of Le Havre

TODAY: Le Havre, founded 500 years ago, is now France’s 2nd largest commercial harbour, and the biggest container ship harbour. It is also the world’s 50th biggest harbour.

???? Frank Boggs - Marine, Le Havre, in the Dry Docks — ???? Frank Boggs – Marine, Le Havre, in the Dry Docks

Harfleur

Harfleur is a city very close to Le Havre and lies on the East of it.

Sainte-Adresse

The city of Sainte-Adresse lies against Le Havre, and shares the beach.

TODAY: The Sainte-Adresse beach is seamlessly connected to the le Havre one, and is seen as one.

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
Normandy
- Caen ⇠
  - Ouistreham ⇠
- Caudebec-en-Caux ⇠
- Deauville ⇠
- Dieppe ⇠
- Fecamp
- Honfleur
- Le Havre (and surroundings) ⇠
  - Harfleur ⇠
  - Sainte-Adresse ⇠
- Lisieux
- Pont-l’Eveque
- Pont-Audemer
- Rouen
- Saint-Valery-en-Caux
- Trouville-sur-Mer
Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur
- Marseille

Here are the painters/artists who painted in Le Havre:

Click here for a map listing all artists and where they painted in the Le Havre area.

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