Thomas Shotter Boys (1803–1874) was an English watercolour painter and lithographer.

Life

Boys was born at

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, 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

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, who persuaded him to abandon engraving for painting. Some sources describe him as a pupil of Bonington, although

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, who later shared a studio with him in Paris, disputed this. He exhibited at the

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for the first time in 1824, and in Paris in 1827. In 1830 he went to Brussels, but returned to England on the outbreak of the revolution there. Paying another visit to Paris, he remained there until 1837, and then returned to England in order to lithograph the works of

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and

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. 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

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, it was described in a review in the ''Polytechnic Journal'' as "the first successful effort in chroma-lithography hitherto brought to perfection".

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sent the artist a ring in recognition of its merits. He also published ''Original Views of London as it is,'' drawn and lithographed by himself, (London, 1843). He drew the illustrations to Blackie's ''History of England,'' and etched some plates for

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's ''Stones of Venice''. Boys was a member of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours, and of several foreign artistic societies. He died in 1874.

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* , a painting of

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engraved by J Thomas for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833 with a poetical illustration by

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. * , a painting engraved by G Hamilton for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833 with a poetical illustration by

. * , a painting engraved by W J Cooke for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835 with a poetical illustration by

. * In Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1834, as illustration to

's poem : :* ''Ruins, South Side of Old Delhi'', engraved by G Hamilton. {{DEFAULTSORT:Boys, Thomas Shotter 1803 births 1874 deaths English lithographers English illustrators English watercolourists 19th-century English painters English male painters 19th-century English male artists