Alice Boughton

Alice Boughton (* May 14, 1867 ( after 1865, after 1866 ) in Brooklyn, † June 21, 1943 in Brookhaven, New York) was an American photographer and painter. Your photographs will be assigned to the pictorialism.

Life and work

Boughton, daughter of Mr and Mrs William H. Boughton and Frances Ayers, grew up in Brooklyn. Her father worked as a lawyer. She studied at the Pratt Institute in New York and Paris painting. The personal circumstances Boughton as adults are partially unclear. Here and there, is specified in the photographic literature, she had two children. Evidence of a birth or marriage are not known. According to an article published in Long Iceland Advance contemporary obituary she left only one brother, two nieces and a nephew. She was also referred to in this as Miss Boughton. Busy but that it no later than 1920 at the same address as the artist and art teacher Ida Haskell (* 1861, † 1932) was living without it being known what type may have been the relationship between the two women.

Boughton opened in 1890, own portrait studio in New York. She was working as a darkroom assistant also at Gertrude Käsebier. Her clients have included numerous artistically active personalities, such as George Arliss, John Drinkwater, Adeline Genée, Myra Hess, Roger Fry and Jack Butler Yeats. A 1890 -built by her photograph was John Singer Sargent as a template for his 1897 posthumously arisen Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson.

But the work Alice Boughton includes not only portraits. They also gained notoriety through her ​​landscapes, studies of children and the recorded before allegorical or naturalistic background female nudes.

Boughton was a member of the Photo-Secession. In 1909 some of her pictures in the published and co-authored by Alfred Stieglitz Camera Work magazine published. A selection of her photographic portraits she could in 1928 in Avondale Verlag Press, New York, published under the title Photographing the Famous.

Works by Alice Boughton include part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British National Portrait Gallery in London, the U.S. National Portrait Gallery in Washington and the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.