Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Böe, Francis Didier
BÖE, Francis Didier, a painter, born at Bergen, in Norway, May 28, 1820, studied art in the Academy of Copenhagen and the studio of M. Greenland, and in 1849 took up his residence in Paris. The flower-paintings which he sent to the galleries of Christiania and to the French exhibitions were remarkable for freshness of colouring and effective arrangement. His "Bunch of Grapes," 1850, was secured for the Museum of the Louvre; and his "Camellias on a Toilet-table" was honourably mentioned at the Univeral Exposition of 1855. He exhibited "The Half-opened Orange" and "Pheasant and Partridge" in 1857; "Eagle Devouring a young Norwegian Fox," a Polar Landscape with the Midnight Sun; and "A Couple of Norway Fowls in their Spring Plumage," in 1863; "Sea Birds in the Light of the Midnight Sun: An Eagle holding a small Fox," in 1867; and "Vue des Montagnes de Vestenaalen" at the Universal Exposition of 1878.