Thomas Shotter Boys [SEP] date of birth
Thomas Shotter Boys
Thomas Shotter Boys (1803–1874) was an English watercolour painter and lithographer.
Life.
Boys was born at Pentonville, London, on 2 January 1803. He was articled to the engraver George Cooke. When his apprenticeship came to an end he went to Paris where he met and came under the influence of Richard Parkes Bonington, who persuaded him to abandon engraving for painting. Some sources describe him as a pupil of Bonington, although William Callow, who later shared a studio with him in Paris
Boys (surname)
Boys is the surname of:
- C. V. Boys (1845–1944), English physicist
- David Boys (died 1461), English theologian
- David Boys (Scrabble), Canadian Scrabble player, 1995 world champion
- Edward Boys (disambiguation)
- Frank Boys (1918–2003), English cricketer
- John Boys (disambiguation)
- S. Francis Boys (1911–1972), English theoretical chemist
- Thomas Boys (1792–1880), theologian and antiquary
- Thomas Shotter Boys