About John Bogle
Lived 1746 – 1803 (aged 56–57). John Bogle was a British painter.
Commodore George Johnstone, now in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
John Bogle (c. 1744 – 21 April 1803) was a Scottish miniature painter.
Biography Bogle was the son of an excise officer also called John. He attended classes at a drawing school in Glasgow founded in 1753 by the printers and booksellers Robert and Andrew Foulis.
Bogle married in 1769, and in that year and the next exhibited miniatures at the Society of Artists in London from an address in Edinburgh. He then moved to London, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1772 to 1794, including a self-portrait of 1772. He painted a miniature of the novelist Fanny Burney in June 1783, and in 1790 he accompanied her to the trial of Warren Hastings in Westminster Hall.
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Who was John Bogle?
Scottish miniature painter (1746–1803)
When was John Bogle born?
John Bogle was born in 1746 in Edinburgh.
When did John Bogle die?
John Bogle died in 1803 in Edinburgh.
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John Bogle was a painter.
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John Bogle was British.
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