A Life Captured in Line and Light Born in Kotagiri, Madras, India, Arthur Boyd Houghton emerged as a profound voice in the mid-19th century art world, weaving together the delicate precision of illustration with the emotive power of painting. His life was marked by a unique blend of global perspective and intense artistic focus, shaped significantly by his early years in India and his subsequent travels through America and Russia. Though his physical sight was forever altered by a childhood accident involving a toy cannon that left him blind in one eye, this limitation did not diminish his a…