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Arthur Merric Boyd
(1862-1940),
son of Captain
John Theodore Thomas Boyd
and his wife
Lucy Charlotte Martin
was
born in New Zealand. He
was
a highly regarded painter of his day, and
an artist of charm and ability, who painted best in water-colour, without
reaching the heights of his contemporaries in the Heidelberg school. While he
was friendly with
Frederick McCubbin
and
E. Phillips Fox,
he did not associate much with other artists. According to his son Martin
(1893-1972), the novelist,
Arthur Merric Boyd
was,
if a little remote, just and generous, with a tolerant and enlightened way of
bringing up children.
Arthur Merric Boyd
(1862-1940)
married
Emma Minnie à Beckett
(1858-1936)
on
14
January 1886.
She was second daughter of
William Arthur à Beckett
and his wife
of
Emma Mills
á Beckett.
Emma Minnie
was a
successful painter and
the heiress of her grandfather
John Mills
fortune.
They
came to Melbourne in the mid 1870s and settled at Brighton and had five children.
They both exhibited at the Royal Academy in
1891 after which they moved briefly to Paris. On their return to Melbourne in
1894 they lived at Sandringham. In 1898 their works were included in the
Exhibition of Australian Art in London at the Grafton Galleries. The family travelled overseas from time to time, and spent summers in Tasmania where the
scenery inspired some of Boyd's best work; they exhibited regularly with the
Victorian Artists' Society.
Many critics believe that
Emma Minnie à Beckett
work
to be superior to her husband's
Arthur Merric Boyd
(1862-1940).
After
Emma Minnie à Beckett
death at Sandringham on 13 September 1936, her husband
Arthur Merric Boyd
(1862-1940)
lived at Rosebud where he was often joined by his grandson
Arthur Boyd
(1920-1999)
to whom he gave painting lessons.
I t
can be said
that the Boyd artistic dynasty really begin with the 14 January 1886 marriage of
Emma Minnie à Beckett
(1858-1936)
and
Arthur Merric Boyd
(1862-1940),
both
established painters at the time of their marriage. They had five
children, including
William
Merric Boyd
(1888-1959),
known as Merric Boyd, who become father of
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd,
known as
Arthur Boyd
(1920-1999).
The Boyd's, A Family Biography, Sydney Morning Herald,
May 18 2000
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