PILGRIMS GOING TO CHURCH
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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.
Worksheet and Activities
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Picture of Pilgrims Going to Church to print and color.
Online Crossword Puzzle
Boughton Crossword Puzzle
Work a Jigsaw Puzzle
Child-size Master-pieces Level 2 - Intermediate
By Parent Child Press
All the art reproductions in this volume are to be used with the handbook How to Use Child-Size Masterpieces for Art Appreciation (#59784). This handbook enables parents and/or teachers-who need not be art experts-to introduce fine paintings to children of all ages.
Biography of Boughton
Painting and Biography
painting of Rose Standish,
wife of Myles Standish
George Henry Boughton Biography
George Henry Boughton
friend of James McNeill Whistler
Famous Artists in this Series
Index to Famous Paintings
Art Appreciation
Lessons for Kids
