Arthur Merric Boyd
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Arthur Merric Boyd (born at Dunedin, New Zealand, on 19 March 1862; died at Melbourne, Australia, in July 1940) was an Australian painter, and founder of the Boyd artistic dynasty.
Arthur Boyd moved to Australia and in January 1886 married Emma Minnie à Beckett, also an artist, daughter of the Hon. W. A. C. à'Beckett of Melbourne. Proceeding to England they lived for a time at Westbury, Wiltshire, and in 1891 husband and wife each had a picture in the Royal Academy exhibition.
Boyd then travelled and painted a good deal on the continent of Europe, and returned to Australia about the end of 1893, where he lived mostly in Sandringham and other suburbs of Melbourne for the rest of his life. He occasionally sent good work to the exhibitions of the Victorian Artists' Society, but never mixed much in the artistic life of his time.
Mrs. Boyd died at Melbourne on 13 September 1936 and her husband in July 1940. Each is represented by a picture in the national gallery at Melbourne.
They left three sons, Theodore Penleigh Boyd; Martin à'Beckett Boyd, born in 1893, a popular writer of fiction under the name "Martin Mills", and Merric Boyd, a potter, and a daughter Helen à Beckett Boyd a painter.
[edit] References
- Serle, Percival (1949). “Boyd, Arthur Merric”, Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.
- Brenda Niall, The Boyds, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2002. (ISBN 0-522-84871-0)
- This article incorporates text from the public domain 1949 edition of Dictionary of Australian Biography from
Project Gutenberg of Australia, which is in the public domain in Australia and the United States of America.
