Sir William Boxall

Boxall specialised in portrait painting. He was made a member of the Royal Academy in 1863. In 1866 he became the second Director of the National Gallery. Two portraits of 'A Woman aged about 45' and 'A Man aged about 45' may be by Boxall, and are perhaps of his parents.

Painter and second Director of the National Gallery, 1866–1874.

Painted a portrait of Revd John Hothersall Pinder (1794–1868), chaplain at Codrington sugarcane plantation in Barbados and author of the proslavery Advice to Servants; being five Family Lectures delivered to Domestic Slaves in the island of Barbadoes, in the Year 1822 (London, 1824). (UCL Department of History, ‘Rev. John Hothersall Pinder’, in UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership [online], London 2020, <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146652643> accessed 23 June 2021.) Two letters from Pinder to Boxall are in National Gallery Archive (NGA1/1/3/24, NGA1/17/9).

No known connections with abolition.

Painter: Boxall painted NG6352–6353, NG6482; also NG601 (now Tate, N00601).

S. Avery-Quash, 'Boxall, Sir William', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3095
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History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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M. J. H. Liversidge, 'Boxall, Sir William', in J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T010683
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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