Rosina (Cox) Boardman

Place: New York City

Born: 1878

Death: 1970

Biography:

Rosina Cox Boardman (1878–1970) was an American painter of portrait miniatures and botanical illustrations. Born in New York City, Boardman was a descendant of several of the oldest families in the state, including the Livingstons and Schuylers. She studied at the Art Students League of New York, the New York School of Applied Design, and the Chase School of Art; among her instructors were George Bridgman, Frank Vincent DuMond, and Alice Beckington. She often showed her work and won prizes, including, in 1930 and 1938, the Levantia White Boardman Memorial Medal of the American Society of Miniature Painters, which she had endowed in honor of her mother. In 1933, she was called by Time Magazine one of the best miniaturists in the country due to her application of contemporary techniques, such as those learned from Virginia Richmond Reynolds. She was described as a rebel. When the American Society of Miniature Painters disbanded in 1965 it was Boardman who, along with Alexandrina Robertson Harris, negotiated the gift of twenty-two miniatures from its members to the Smithsonian Institution.Boardman died in Huntington, New York.