Background
Boyd was born in Opoho, Dunedin, New Zealand, son of Captain John Theodore Thomas Boyd, formerly of County Mayo, Ireland, and his wife Lucy Charlotte, daughter of Doctor Robert Martin of Heidelberg, Victoria.
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Arthur Boyd
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The Boyds moved to Australia in the mid-1870s, and on 14 January 1886 Boyd married Emma Minnie à Beckett, also an artist, daughter of the Honorary West. A. C. à Beckett of Melbourne. 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.
Each is represented by a picture in the National Gallery of Victoria at Melbourne.
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