PILGRIMS GOING TO CHURCH
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George Henry Boughton was born in England and his parents took him to America when he was a baby. When he grew up, he became a painter and sold his first painting when he was 19 years old. He took the money and visited London. Then he went back to America for a couple of years. He decided to study in Paris for a while, but eventually made London his home. He established an art studio there in 1861 and began to concentrate his work on early American Colonial history.
His paintings of two pilgrims going to Canterbury inspired Van Gogh's first sermon. Van Gogh admired his work very much.
He liked to paint landscapes and also pictures of people. In this painting that we are studying, he shows a group of Pilgrims walking to church. It is winter time and there is snow on the ground.
Why do you think the men are carrying guns? Life was very hard for these early settlers, and many of them died because of the extreme conditions.
Hester Prynne, character
in The Scarlet Letter
Boughton also was an illustrator of books. He drew the pictures for Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Washington Irving's books Rip Van Winkle and The History of New York.
He wrote a book called Sketching Rambles in Holland in 1885. You can see the illustrations at Google books.
Draw Write Now, Book 3: Native Americans, North America, The Pilgrims
By Marie Hablitzel / Barker Creek
Explore the world with, Draw Write Now, a collection of drawing and handwriting lessons developed by an elementary school teacher and tested by over 800 children. The contents include: Colorful easy to follow drawing lessons. Text for practicing handwriting. Theme related questions, answers and book lists. A child friendly format. And countless ideas to spark children's imagination and creativity! In Book Three children explore the themes of Native Americans, North America and The Pilgrims. One of eight books in the Draw Write Now Series by authors, Marie Hablitzel and Kim Stitzer, Barker Creek Publishing.
RESEARCH LINKS
Painting and Biography
painting of Rose Standish,
wife of Myles Standish
George Henry Boughton Biography
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at Wikipedia
George Henry Boughton
at Artcyclopedia
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Wikimedia Commons
George Henry Boughton
The Vault at Pfaff's (extensive biographical material)
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