From, Beautiful Buildings in France & Belgium, Including many which have been destroyed during the war. Reproductions in Colour and Monochrome from rare old Prints and Drawings, by and after Prout, Boys, Coney, W. Callow, David Roberts, C. Wild and others, with descriptive notes, by C. Harrison Townsend, F.R.I.B.A.; New York: The Hubbell Publishing Co., 1916; pp. 144-147.
NORTHERN FRANCE : OLD COURTYARD
(T. S. Boys)
HIS sunny corner of the old courtyard of a derelict château — evidently in Northern France — has offered Boys a subject full of the quiet atmosphere of tranquillity and peace with which he so usually invests his subjects. This artist, charming alike in his watercolour sketches and in his chalk drawings (of one of which latter this Plate is a reproduction), was one of that band of workers who, in the early half of the last century, made Belgium and the Northern part of France their hunting-ground. The present volume has many subjects by his hand, and
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shows us how much we have to thank him and them for their careful and loving records of “those pleasant times that were.” Boys’ work found much favour in his day, and he exhibited frequently between the years 1824 and 1858.
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