John Boaden (1792/93 – 4 April 1839) was an English

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Life

Boaden was the son of the theatre critic

James Boaden James Boaden (23 May 1762 – 16 February 1839) was an English biographer, dramatist, and journalist. Biographer He was the son of William Boaden, a merchant in the Russia trade. He was born at Whitehaven, Cumberland, on 23 May 1762, and at ...

. A painter of portraits and theatrical subjects, he exhibited 40 works at the

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between 1810 and 1833, 90 at the British Institute between 1810 and 1839, and 59 at the

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between 1827 and 1840 (in the last year posthumously). Just six weeks after his father's death, Boaden died of "

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" in London, aged 46.

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* , a painting engraved by C. Marr for The Amulet annual, 1836, with a poetical illustration by

Letitia Elizabeth Landon Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. The writings of Landon are transitional between Romanticism and the Victorian Age. Her first major breakthrough ...

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Attribution: * 1790s births 1839 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters English portrait painters Year of birth uncertain Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery 19th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub