“An 1877 graduate of Columbia University's School of Mines, Robert W. Van Boskerck received his artistic education from Robert Swain Gifford and Alexander Wyant. As a landscapist, he preferred quiet, settled scenes drawn from his travels at home and abroad. During the early 1880s, he was concerned with views of New Jersey and Long Island, but trips overseas acquainted him with Holland, France, and England, countries whose landscape he often painted. Throughout the last decade of his artistic activity, he executed views of Adirondack scenery in Keene Valley, New York” (2).
“His family (father Lucas Van Boskerck) lived in Bergen County, New Jersey from the 1860's to 1915 on the river at River Road and Anderson Street. The painter's ancestors probably emigrated from Denmark or Holland in the early 18th century to Hoboken where they reportedly maintained ownership of several ferry lines to Manhattan” (1).
He died in 1932.
Reference:
1.
Askart Staff. Robert Van Boskerk [internet]. [cited 2015 June 3]. Available from: http://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Robert_Ward_Van_Boskerck/24597/Robert_Ward_Van_Boskerck.aspx#
2.
Rubylane Staff. Robert Warn Van Boskerk (American 1855-1932) River Landscape Oil Painting [internet]. [cited 2015 June 3]. Available from: http://www.rubylane.com/item/943369-130112MUP06/Robert-Ward-Van-Boskerck-American-1855