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William Merric
Boyd
(1888-1959) artist, potter
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Auction results Biography William Merric Boyd potter, son of Emma Minnie à Beckett (1858-1936) and Arthur Merric Boyd (1862-1940), married Doris Gough (1889-1960) painter, they had five children, including Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd, known as Arthur Boyd (1920-1999) Boyd Videos |
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A Century of Boyd Exhibition - March to May 2012 |
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A Century of Boyd Exhibition - March to May 2012 contact us |
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 William Merric
Boyd
(1888-1959)
Biography
(1888-1959)1. Lucy Evelyn Gough Boyd (born 1916), ceramist.3. Guy Martin à Beckett Boyd (1923-1988)
5. Mary Elizabeth Boyd (1926-), painter
William Merric, was born
on 24 June 1888 at St Kilda, and attended Haileybury College and
Dookie Agricultural College. Unsuccessful as a farmer at Yarra
Glen, at one time he considered entering the Church of England
ministry; he was the model for 'a difficult young man' in Martin
Boyd's novel under that title. However, in 1908 at Archibald
McNair's Burnley Pottery, he successfully threw his first pot.
His parents helped to provide a workshop for him at Murrumbeena
and pottery kilns were established there in 1911 (destroyed by
fire in 1926).
Merric studied at the Melbourne National Gallery School under L.Bernard Hall and McCubbin. He held his first exhibition of stoneware in Melbourne in 1912 and a second exhibition soon afterwards, and was employed by Hans Fyansch of the Australian Porcelain Works, Yarraville. On 12 October 1915 he married Doris Lucy Eleanor Bloomfield Gough, a fellow student and potter. In May 1917 he joined the Australian Flying Corps but was discharged later in England. Before his return to Australia in September 1919 he undertook training in pottery technique at Wedgwood's, Stoke-on-Trent.
Merric produced
his best
works in the 1920s and 1930s. These were mostly
pieces for domestic use, often decorated by
Doris, and some pottery sculptures. He believed
that 'the first impulse of the maker of
hand-pottery is to obtain pleasure in making and
decorating an article, and making that pleasure
intelligible 'the use of our own fauna and
flora is of the first importance'. In spite of
his aversion to creating art that would sell
well, Merric Boyd worked hard to provide for his growing
family.
In the 1930s Merric was employed at the Australian Porcelain Co. Pty Ltd, Yarraville, in the manufacture of Cruffel art porcelain, he earned £4 a week. Doris worked there also on a half-time basis. In his later years Merric became something of a recluse. He had adopted his wife's faith in Christian Science and from the 1930s read little beyond its teachings and the Bible. Merric Boyd had considerable influence on younger artists, 682 of his drawings were collected and published by Christopher Tadgell as Merric Boyd Drawings (London, 1975). His portrait by his son-in-law John Perceval (1923-2000) is one of several. Subject to epileptic fits, Merric died at Murrumbeena on 9 September 1959. Doris died on 13 June 1960. They were survived by their five children, all noted artists: Lucy, Arthur Boyd, Guy, David Boyd, and Mary. |
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 William
Merric Boyd
(1888-1959)
mother
was
Emma Minnie à
Beckett Boyd
(1858-1936)
Emma Minnie
was
lively, beautiful, cultivated and compassionate, she painted landscapes in
Tasmania and many seascapes, but she had a particular talent for genre. At their
farm at Yarra Glen she successfully painted the four seasons in a frieze around
the dining-room.
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
(1858-1936) work
to be superior to her husband's
Arthur Merric Boyd
(1862-1940).
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 2002
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 Arthur Boyd
(1920-1999)
is
son of
William
Merric Boyd
(1888-1959)
and
Doris Gough (1889-1960).
married
Yvonne Lennie they had three children, including
Jamie Patrick Boyd
(1948-) painter and sculptor.
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 Jamie Boyd
(1948)
is son of
Arthur Boyd
(1920-1999) and
his wife
Yvonne Lennie.
Jamie Boyd, painter and sculptor, married Helena Lopes. They have five children including the youngest, Nathaniel Boyd born 1983. |
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 Nathaniel Boyd
born 1983 is the youngest son of
Jamie Patrick Boyd
(1948-)
and his wife Helena,
and a
gran-gran-grandson of
Emma Minnie à Beckett
(1858-1936)
and
Arthur Merric Boyd
(1862-1940).
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