About George Henry Bogert

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    From the New York Times, December 14, 1944

    GEORGE H. BOGERT

    George H. Bogert, landscape painter whose work is represented by six paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and two in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, died at the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals after a brief illness. He was 80 years old.

    Mr. Bogert was born in New York City, the son of Henry Bogert and Helen Anderson Evans Bogert. His father was a paper manufacturer, and an uncle, J. August Bogert, was a noted wood engraver. Among the Bogert family’s ancestors was Sarah Rapalje, the first female child born to European parents in New Netherland.

    After studying under Thomas Eakins at the National Academy of Design, Mr. Bogert went...

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