Object Description
ALFRED ADALBERT BOESE
(1875-1923)
The Polar Bears at Home
Indistinctly signed and dated l.r.: B Boese/01; signed, dated, inscribed with title and the artist’s address on the reverse:
18.2.02 / B. Boese 15 Park Hill, Clapham Park
Watercolour over traces of pencil
Unframed
35.5 by 25.5 cm., 14 by 10 in.
(mount size 47.5 by 37 cm., 18 ¾ by 14 ½ in.)
Alfred Adalbert Boese was the son of a German oil merchant who became a naturalised British subject in the 1870s. He worked as an artist and illustrator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During this time he contributed to The Windsor Magazine and The Boy’s Own Paper.