Boxall specialised in portrait painting. He was made a member of the Royal Academy in 1863. In 1866 he became the second Director of the National Gallery. Two portraits of 'A Woman aged about 45' and 'A Man aged about 45' may be by Boxall, and are perhaps of his parents.
Sir William Boxall
1800 - 1879
Image: Detail from Sir William Boxall, Self Portrait of Age about Nineteen, about 1819
Paintings by Sir William Boxall
William Boxall (1800–1879) painted this self-portrait when he was around 19 and about to enter the Royal Academy Schools to train as a painter. He gave it to his sister Anne. The head is rather less than three-quarters life-size. The picture may have been made as a preparatory study for the life-...
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