 Bouvier was one of the first artists known to have exhibited at the British Institution, where he debuted with the oil painting "The Fish Market in Boulogne".From 1865 onward he was a member of the New Watercolour Society.While he specialized in figure paintings and portraits of elegantly dressed women in the English aristocracy, Bouvier also exhibited genre paintings (some of European scenes), and occasional domesticated mythological scenes like his "The Three Graces" of 1875.