Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Boaden, John
BOADEN, JOHN (d. 1839), portrait painter, who was the son of James Boaden [q. v.], the dramatic author and critic, exhibited at the Royal Academy between the years 1810 and 1833, and at the Society of British Artists until 1839. He confined himself to portraiture, painting occasionally portrait groups and theatrical portraits in character; but his works, although pleasing, did not rise above mediocrity. There is by him a portrait of the Rev. Chauncy Hare Townshend, the donor of the 'Townshend Bequest' in the South Kensington Museum. He died in 1839.
[Redgrave's Dictionary of Artists, 1878.]