Education
In 1876-1879 and 1882 she studied at the National Gallery of Victoria School, and exhibited regularly with artists" societies whilst she was studying, given that she had first exhibited competent works prior to having formal training.
In 1876-1879 and 1882 she studied at the National Gallery of Victoria School, and exhibited regularly with artists" societies whilst she was studying, given that she had first exhibited competent works prior to having formal training.
Over one hundred pounds worth of artworks were sold at the 1902 exhibition and commissions were given for further copies of works sold. She also painted some complex figurative oil paintings of interior genre scenes of elegant high life, as well as some social conscience subjects of the poor and marginal in Victorian Melbourne and Britain. These oil paintings establish her as one of the more versatile Australian women artists of the 1880s-1890s.
From 1890-1893 she lived and worked overseas, settling in Britain but also painting on the continent, even whilst she was raising a family.
Emma Minnie Boyd"s art was shown in its own right as works of historical and curatorial merit in the 1992-1993 touring exhibition Completing the Picture: Women Artists and the Heidelberg School, at the Heide Museum of Modern Art and elsewhere, and in a retrospective in 2004 at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.