Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Thomas Shotter Boys (1803-1874), Watercolour painter and lithographer

Water-colourist and lithographer; articled to George Cooke, the engraver; studied with Bonington who persuaded him to become a painter; made several continental sketching tours; published his famous 'Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen' etc, in 1839, and his 'Views of London', 1843; noted chiefly for his elaborate topographical water-colours.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.