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1875 Letterkenny County Donegal, Ireland - 1949 London, England. Known for: Landscape and portrait painting.
Robert Cresswell Boak was a landscape/portrait painter and etcher born in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. Robert was educated at the Londonderry School of Art and the Royal College of Art and then went off... Read full biography
Robert Cresswell Boak was a landscape/portrait painter and etcher born in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. Robert was educated at the Londonderry School of Art and the Royal College of Art and then went off to Paris and Rome. He then turned to teaching art for a short well in Portsmouth and Southsea,... Read full biography
Robert Cresswell Boak was a landscape/portrait painter and etcher born in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. Robert was educated at the Londonderry School of Art and the Royal College of Art and then went off to Paris and Rome. He then turned to teaching art for a short well in Portsmouth and Southsea, Hampshire before making the decision to devote all of his time to his own work. Boak showed twenty-seven works at the Royal Cambrian Society as well as at the Royal Hibernian Academy, and in 1927 he... Read full biography
Robert Cresswell Boak was a landscape/portrait painter and etcher born in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. Robert was educated at the Londonderry School of Art and the Royal College of Art and then went off to Paris and Rome. He then turned to teaching art for a short well in Portsmouth and Southsea, Hampshire before making the decision to devote all of his time to his own work. Boak showed twenty-seven works at the Royal Cambrian Society as well as at the Royal Hibernian Academy, and in 1927 he became a member of the Belfast Art Society. He then married Margaret Cooper, who was an artist and a writer from Belfast. During his time in Belfast he produced a number of etchings of the province and historic buildings. In 1932, they left Belfast before... Read full biography
Robert Cresswell Boak was a landscape/portrait painter and etcher born in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. Robert was educated at the Londonderry School of Art and the Royal College of Art and then went off to Paris and Rome. He then turned to teaching art for a short well in Portsmouth and Southsea, Hampshire before making the decision to devote all of his time to his own work. Boak showed twenty-seven works at the Royal Cambrian Society as well as at the Royal Hibernian Academy, and in 1927 he became a member of the Belfast Art Society. He then married Margaret Cooper, who was an artist and a writer from Belfast. During his time in Belfast he produced a number of etchings of the province and historic buildings. In 1932, they left Belfast before the Second World War and settled in London where he died in 1949.
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Keywords (8)
Art Method
- •Decorative Art, Decoration Design, Ornamental Arts
Art Media
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Subject
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Married to an Artist
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Irish