John Bogle exhibited miniature portraits in London from 1769 to 1792. In early life he lived in Glasgow and Edinburgh; afterwards he came to London, where it is said he died in poverty.
This article incorporates text from the article "BOGLE, John" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.