Joy was the son of William Bruce Joy, Doctor of Medicine, and the brother of sculptor Albert Bruce-Joy, descendents of an old Huguenot family which settled in Antrim in 1612. After a foot injury at young age, his father declared him unfit for military service.
He studied in London"s South Kensington School of Art and later at the Royal Academy under John Everett Millais, Frederic Leighton and George Frederic Watts. Among his fellow students was Hubert von Herkomer.
Served 21 years in Artists’ Corps, representing them at Wimbledon, Bisley, et cetera Also shot 6 times in International Match for Ireland. Pictures: Domenica; Chess-players.
Laodamia.
Young Nelson’s First Farewell. Wellington at Angers. Prince Charlie and Flora Macdonald.
The King’s Drum shall never be beaten for Rebels.
The Death of General Gordon. Princess Alice of Albany, for Queen Victoria.
Reverie, for Nev Zealand Government. Truth, to German Government.
Joan of Arc, sold to French Government.
Lear and Cordelia, in Leeds Municipal Art Gallery. The Danaids; The Drummer of the Penin- 1092 sular. Christ and a Little Child, at Church House, Westminster.
A Merchant man Seeking Goodly Pearls.
A Dinner of Herbs, in Oldham Municipal Art Gallery. Britannia; The King’s Daughter.
Dreams on the Veldt. Griselda. The Sword; A Dream of Fair Women.
A Herald, temporary Edward III., Eve.
Tancred and Clorinda, 1910. And many portraits; obtained Gold Medals at Paris, Munich, and Berlin. Also the Chicago Meda
He became a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1895.
