Shirlaw, Walter - 1908

Name: George Rufus Boynton

Occupation: painter
Born: Pleasant Grove, Wisconsin, October 16, 1861

Son of David and Julia (Hancock) Boynton

Education: high school and normal college, in Minnesota, National Academy of Design and Art Students League (Elliot silver medal, 1876), and under Walter Shirlaw, C. Y. Turner and J. G. Brown, New York.

Married: New Brighton, S. I., New York, July 8, 1906, Mary Ellicott Junius.

Began drawing while at school; went to New York, 1875.  Has painted portraits of General F. D. Grant, General A. S. Webb, General C. S. Roe, Commodore F. G. Bourne, Commodore W. S. Alley, General Stewart L. Woodford, General James Grant Wilson, and many others.

Home Address: New Brighton, S. I., New York
Studio Address: 58 West 57th Street, New York.

~ Who's Who in America, 1908-1909, Copyright 1908, by Albert Nelson Marquis, Page xxviii. (Received too late for insertion in the regular order in the body of the book.)

You can visit the memorial page for Walter Shirlaw.