Background
Boyd was a son of Arthur Merric Boyd and Emma Minnie Boyd, both reputable artists who, together with Penleigh, Martin, and other siblings formed part of the Boyd family.
Boyd was a son of Arthur Merric Boyd and Emma Minnie Boyd, both reputable artists who, together with Penleigh, Martin, and other siblings formed part of the Boyd family.
In 1915 Doris Gough married Merric Boyd, a young potter and graphic artist. Doris and Merric raised five children. Lucy, Arthur (painter, ceramics), Guy (pottery,sculpture), David (pottery, painting) and Mary.
Doris Boyd was the youngest of six children, born of Victorian Naval Forces Lieutenant Thomas Bunbury Gough and Evelyn Anna Walker Gough (née Rigg).
Bunbury Gough was a Lieutenant in the Victorian Navy between 1885 and 1888, a high rank in the Victorian Navy at the time. As Lieutenant, he was in charge of the running of the HMVS Cerberus when the Commander (the highest rank in the Navy) was not on board.
Outside of his naval career in Victoria he variously worked as a merchant, as an insurance agent and as a commission agent like his father-in-law. Evelyn was co-proprietor of The Sun: A Society Courier.
Boyd studied under Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin at the National Gallery School where she met Merric Boyd, a fellow student and potter.
Doris decorated much of Merric Boyd"s works between 1920 and 1930. Mostly pieces for domestic use, where Australian flora and fauna were often used as decorative tools. The Boyd"s Murrumbeena workshop was destroyed by fire in 1926.
Mary, the youngest, married artist John Perceval, and later Sydney Nolan.