Born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, in 1881, Frederick A. Bosley entered the Museum School in 1900 and quickly became a star pupil. Under the influence of teachers Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell, Bosley combined solid drawing with impressionist brushwork and color.  He won the Sears Prize in 1904 and the prestigious Paige Traveling Fellowship in 1907, which enabled him to study in Europe for two years.

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He was a member of the Guild of Boston Artists, the Copley Society and the St. Botolph Club, and exhibited widely throughout New England and the nation, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Corcoran Biennial, and the National Academy of Design in New York, where he became an Associate member in 1931. In 1915, he won a bronze medal at the Pan-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco and in 1925 was awarded the Locust Club gold medal by the Pennsylvania Academy.  Bosley’s works are held in various museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, and the National Academy of Design in New York City.

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By descent through the family of the artist to present