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George Henry Boughton was born in England and his parents took him to America
when he was a baby. When he grew up, he became a painter and sold his first
painting when he was 19 years old. He took the money and visited London. Then
he went back to America for a couple of years. He decided to study in Paris
for a while, but eventually made London his home. He established an art studio
there in 1861 and began to concentrate his work on early American Colonial
history. His paintings of two pilgrims going to Canterbury inspired Van Gogh's
first sermon. Van Gogh admired his work very much. He liked to paint
landscapes and also pictures of people. In this painting that we are studying,
he shows a group of Pilgrims walking to church. It is winter time and there is
snow on the ground. He painted Pilgrims Going to Church. Life was very hard
for these early settlers, and many of them died because of the extreme
conditions. Boughton also was an illustrator of books. He drew the pictures
for Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Washington Irving's books Rip
Van Winkle and The History of New York. He wrote a book called Sketching
Rambles in Holland in 1885.
