Ferdinand Thomas Lee Boyle
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1820
Ringwood, Hampshire, England
- DIED
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December 2, 1906
Brooklyn, New York
- EDUCATION
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National Academy of Design
New York, New York
Ferdinand Thomas Lee Boyle was born in 1820, in Ringwood, Hampshire, England. Boyle’s family immigrated to the United States from England when he was eight. He was interested in art at an early age, and at age fifteen he studied with artist Henry Inman. He also was enrolled in the antique class at the National Academy of Design in New York City. During his career, Boyle exhibited frequently at the National Academy and was an associate there from 1849 to 1868.
Boyle lived in various cities. He lived in New Rochelle, New York, in 1843, and in New York City from 1844 to 1855. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1855. While in St. Louis, Boyle helped organize the Western Academy of Art, the first professional art school in St. Louis. The academy’s purpose was to create a collection of art, form a school for art, and provide a place for artists to exhibit their work. The first exhibition of the school was held in 1860. Boyle also served as vice president of the St. Louis Academy of Design. While working in St. Louis, Boyle received several commissions for portraits from leading citizens in St. Louis, including Sen. Thomas H. Benton, Gen. Frank P. Blair and Missouri Gov. Benjamin Gratz Brown. In 1864, Boyle served as the director of the fine arts at the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair.
During the Civil War, Boyle joined the Union Army and fought with the Fourth Missouri Volunteers. At the end of the war, he held the rank of colonel. After the war, Boyle’s Union affiliation cost him the support of some of his patrons in St. Louis, so he then returned to New York City in 1865. There he established a studio at Broadway and 30th Street. In New York, Boyle painted portraits of prominent individuals, including Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe, and taught at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences from 1870 to 1872 and at Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn from 1874 to 1877.
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“Ferdinand Thomas Lee Boyle: ANA 1849,” National Academy of Design, accessed November 1, 2022, https://nationalacademy.emuseum.com/people/1/ferdinand-thomas-lee-boyle.
Julie Dunn-Morton, 175 Years of Art at the St. Louis Mercantile Library: A Revised Second Edition of the Handbook to the Collections (St. Louis: St. Louis Mercantile Library-University of Missouri, St. Louis, 2021), 208-209.
“Ferdinand Thomas Lee Boyle” in David B. Dearinger, ed., Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: Volume 1, 1826-1925 (New York and Manchester: Hudson Hills Press, 2004), 62-63.
Judith A. Barter and Lynn E. Springer, Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, 1820-1940 (St. Louis: St. Louis Art Museum, 1977), 96, 173.
“Boyle, Ferdinand Thomas Lee (1820-1906),” in Maria Naylor, National Academy of Design Exhibition Record 1861-1900 (New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1973) 1:82-83.
“Boyle, Ferdinand Thomas Lee (1820-1906),” in Mary Bartlett Cowdrey, American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art Union Exhibition Record 1816-1852 (New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1953), 40-41.
“Boyle, Ferdinand Thomas Lee (1820-1906)," in National Academy of Design Exhibition Record 1826-1860 (New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1943), 1:46-47.
“Necrology of Art,” Brush and Pencil 19, no. 1 (January 1907): 11.
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Peter H. Falk, et. al, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).
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William H. Gerdts, Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting, 1710-1920 (New York: Abbeville Press, 1990).
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“Ferdinand Thomas Lee Boyle: ANA 1849,” National Academy of Design, accessed November 1, 2022, https://nationalacademy.emuseum.com/people/1/ferdinand-thomas-lee-boyle.
Julie Dunn-Morton, 175 Years of Art at the St. Louis Mercantile Library: A Revised Second Edition of the Handbook to the Collections (St. Louis: St. Louis Mercantile Library-University of Missouri, St. Louis, 2021), 208-209.
“Ferdinand Thomas Lee Boyle” in David B. Dearinger, ed., Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: Volume 1, 1826-1925 (New York and Manchester: Hudson Hills Press, 2004), 62-63.
Judith A. Barter and Lynn E. Springer, Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, 1820-1940 (St. Louis: St. Louis Art Museum, 1977), 96, 173.
“Boyle, Ferdinand Thomas Lee (1820-1906),” in Maria Naylor, National Academy of Design Exhibition Record 1861-1900 (New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1973) 1:82-83.
“Boyle, Ferdinand Thomas Lee (1820-1906),” in Mary Bartlett Cowdrey, American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art Union Exhibition Record 1816-1852 (New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1953), 40-41.
“Boyle, Ferdinand Thomas Lee (1820-1906)," in National Academy of Design Exhibition Record 1826-1860 (New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1943), 1:46-47.
“Necrology of Art,” Brush and Pencil 19, no. 1 (January 1907): 11.
Core Reference Sources
Peter H. Falk, et. al, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).
askART (database), askART, https://www.askart.com/.
William H. Gerdts, Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting, 1710-1920 (New York: Abbeville Press, 1990).
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