Frank Bowcher was born Frank Boucher [1] in St. Pancras, Middlesex [now London], England in 1864 and was the son of William Henry Boucher (1837-1906), an etcher and cartoonist. He studied in London at the National Art Training School, under Edward Onslow Ford, and in Paris, where he was influenced by the work of Jules-Clément Chaplain and Oscar Roty. He subsequently worked in London as a sculptor and medallist. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy in London from 1892 to 1933. He also exhibited at the Royal Miniature Society in London; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Leeds City Art Gallery; and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. He also participated in the International Exhibition i n Dublin in 1907 ; and at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900, and the Exposition Universelle et Internationale in Brussels in 1910 at which he was awarded medals.
Notable among Bowcher's commissions were silver seals for George V, portraits of Duke and Duchess of Connaught, Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, Earl and Countess of Derby, The Maharaja of Baroda for Baroda Museum, the restoration of antique bronzes for Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 1918, medals for the Royal College of Art, Eton College, and for British School at Rome, and relief portraits of George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
Bowcher lived throughout his career in London. He died on 6 December 1938. His address at the time of his death was 7 Woodstock Road, Bedford Park, London
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[1] By the early 1890s he had changed his surname to Bowcher.
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