Arthur merrick bloomfield boyd biography definition
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Arthur merrick bloomfield boyd biography definition
Arthur Merric Boyd
Australian artist (1862–1940)
Not to be confused with Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd (1920-1999)
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.
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, and in 1891 husband and wife each had a picture in the Royal Academy exhibition.[3]
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