John Bogle

Place: Glasgow

Death: 1803

Biography:

John Bogle was the son of a Scottish excise officer. In the 1760s he trained at the recently founded Foulis Academy in Glasgow and was then briefly based in Edinburgh. In 1770 he moved to London, where he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1772 to 1794, including a self-portrait of 1772. He painted a miniature of the novelist Fanny Burney in June 1783, and in 1790 he accompanied her to the trial of Warren Hastings in Westminster Hall. He moved back to Scotland in 1800 with his wife. He died in Edinburgh in 1803, aged 59.