biography of James BOGLE (1817-1873)

Birth place: Georgetown, SC

Death place: Brooklyn

Addresses: North Carolina; Charleston, SC, 1840-41; Baltimore, MD, 1842; Charleston, 1843; NYC, from 1843

Profession: Portrait, genre, and fancy painter

Studied: With Samuel Morse, NYC, 1836

Exhibited: NAD, 1840-1873; Washington Art Assoc., 1857, 1859

Member: N.A. (in 1861)

Work: NYHS; Gibbes Art Gallery/Carolina Art Assoc., Charleston, SC

Comments: The twin brother of Robert Bogle. The brothers worked in Salisbury, NC, 1838; Wilmington, NC, 1839; Charleston, SC,1840-41; Baltimore, 1842; and again in Charleston in 1843. Just how they combined their efforts is unclear but one collaboration remains--a large portrait of Jane Ball Shoolbred (105 1/4 in. x 76 1/8 in., Gibbes Art Gallery). After 1843, the brothers went their own ways with James moving to NYC, although he made at least one visit to Charleston in 1849. He became a prolific and popular portrait painter in NYC, producing portraits of prominent Americans such as J. Calhoun and Thomas Cole. Cf. James Boyle (Portrait Painter).

Sources: G&W; CAB (gives the brothers' birthyear as 1817); 8 Census (1860), D.C., I, 49 [under Robert Bogle, gave his age as 40, suggesting an 1820 birthdate]; Clement and Hutton; Rutledge, Artists in the Life of Charleston, 186-87; Baltimore CD 1842; NYBD 1844; NYCD 1846+ [sometimes as Boyle]; Cowdrey, NAD; Washington Art Assoc. Cats., 1857, 1859; Stauffer, nos. 305, 2561; Fielding, Supplement to Stauffer, no. 1228; repro., NYHS Quarterly, Oct. 1944, 160; NYHS (1974), cat. no. 686. More recently, see Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 2: 35, 49-50.