Arthur Merric Boyd
Australian artist (1862–1940)
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Arthur Merric Boyd (19 March 1862 – 30 July 1940) was an Australian painter. He and his wife Emma Minnie (née à Beckett) established a lifestyle of being artists, which many generations followed to create the popular image of the Boyd family.
Arthur Merric Boyd | |
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| Born | 19 March 1862 |
| Died | 30 July 1940 (aged 78) Murrumbeena, Victoria, Australia |
| Known for | Landscape painting |
| Movement | Boyd family |
| Spouse | Emma Minnie Boyd |
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Biography
Boyd was born in Opoho, Dunedin, New Zealand, son of Captain John Theodore Thomas Boyd, formerly of County Mayo, Ireland,[2] and his wife Lucy Charlotte, daughter of Dr Robert Martin of Heidelberg, Victoria. The Boyds moved to Australia in the mid-1870s, and on 14 January 1886, Boyd married Emma Minnie à Beckett, also an artist and known as Minnie, daughter of the Hon. W. A. C. à Beckett of Melbourne.[1] In 1890, they moved to England and lived for a time at Penleigh House, Westbury, Wiltshire.[3]
Minnie Boyd died at Melbourne on 13 September 1936 at Sandringham.[4] Arthur Merric Boyd died on the property of his son, Merric, at Murrumbeena on 30 July 1940. Each is represented by a picture in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.[3] They left three sons, Theodore Penleigh Boyd (1890–1923), Martin à Beckett Boyd (1893–1972), a popular writer of fiction firstly under the name 'Martin Mills' and then his own, and Merric (1888–1959), a potter, and a daughter Helen à Beckett Boyd, a painter.[3]
Selected paintings
Gathering Seaweed Before the Storm, Sandringham Beach
Winter Evening
North Wharf, Melbourne
Fishing at the Jetty
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