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Laurel Boeck is one of the nation's foremost oil portrait artists.

Laurel Stern Boeck (born August 19, 1959) is an American Fine Art Portrait artist based out of Westchester County, NY. Boeck has painted prominent figures ranging in fields of politics, military, business, academic and judicial. Her talented hands have had the honor of painting prestigious individuals such as Jodi Rell, the former Governor of Connecticut and the General Martin Dempsey,.

Boeck’s passion for creating portraiture gives her an innate ability to portray not only the physical attributes of her clients but the spirit and personality within each and everyone of them.

Background:

As a young child Laurel Stern Boeck always demonstrated a love of drawing and painting portraits. The anatomical features of the face fascinated her as a young artist.

Boeck went on to study illustration and design while attending the School of Visual Arts in New York City. After graduating, she worked as a freelance illustrator before being named Art Director at Ogilvy, an ad Agency in NYC. Aside from her position as Art Director, Boeck pursued her true love of painting portraits under her mentor, the master artist, John Murray. For many years, she worked beside Murray learning the challenging techniques of the Old Masters, which eventually launched her career into the artistic world of Fine Art portraiture.

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General Martin Dempsey

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