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Boydell, Josiah - Biography & Artworks | Artheon Museum

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Boydell, Josiah

1752–1817

Nationality: United Kingdom

Born: 1752, Hawarden

Died: 1817, Shepperton

Gender: male

Occupations

print publisher

painter

printseller

printmaker

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Biography

Comment on works: Portraits; History

Wikidata (CC0); Getty ULAN (ODC-By)

Artworks

73 artworks

Portrait of Helena Fourment, with a young page behind her

1782

Falstaff Rising Slowly (Shakespeare, First Part of King Henry IV, Act 5, Scene 4)

June 4, 1794

Shakespeare Seated Between the Dramatic Muse and the Genius of Painting, Who is Pointing Him Out as the Proper Subject for Her Pencil

1797

Infant Shakespeare Attended by Nature and the Passions

1799

Imogen (Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 3, Scene 6)

1803

Florizel, Perdita, etc. in the Shepherd's Cot (Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, Act 4, Scene 3)

August 1, 1792

Mrs. Ford and Mrs Page (Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 2, Scene 1)

1793

Falstaff, Prince Henry and Poins at the Boar's Head Tavern (Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 4)

1796

King Lear Weeping Over the Body of Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 5, Scene 3)

August 1, 1792

"To you I give myself, for I am yours" (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 4)

September 29, 1792

The Tempest, Act I: Ferdinand and Miranda

1788

The infant Christ lying on a wooden box, the Virgin kneeling in prayer before him, Saint Joseph at left, shepherds at right, in an octagonal frame, after Reni

1783

Mary, Queen of Scots witnessing the murder of David Rizzio

January 1, 1791

Girl and Pigs

May 1, 1802

Cephalus and Procris

1764–98

The Return of the Prodigal Son

1764–98