English: Boyce studied architecture on the Continent. A fortuitous meeting with David COX at Bettws-y-Coed in 1849 encouraged him to take up landscape painting.
From 1851 to 1875 Boyce kept a diary (extracts published in O.W.S. Club Vol.XIX, 1941) which gives us intimate pictures of RUSKIN, MILLAIS, Holman HUNT, William Morris (1834-96), Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909), WHISTLER and, above all, ROSSETTI. The meticulous style of Boyce’s painting was clearly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites.
The Tate exhibition catalogue by Christopher Newall and Judy Egerton quotes Staley’s opinion that this is a very good example of ‘the sense of intimacy’ which Boyce gives his subjects by restricting the space he allows them.
Trustees of the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford
Accession number
P.188
Object history
Bought from the artist by J. Stewart Hodgson 1863; Robert Frank; Marquess of Sligo; P&D Colnaghi, from whom purchased by Gallery, April 1958.
Exhibition history
Paris Universal Exhibition, 1867, no.8; OWCS Summer Exhibition, 1864, no.106; George Price Boyce, London, Tate Gallery, 1987, no.35; Victorian Painting, Munich, Neue Pinakothek Museum and Madrid, The Prado, 1993, no.57.
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Signature and date:
G.P.Boyce Sep.1862
References
A. Staley, The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape, 1973, p.109, pl.55b; G. Grigson, Britain Observed, 1975, p.138, pl.99; G. Reynolds, English Watercolours, 1988, pl.110; J. Treuherz, Victorian Paintings, 1993, pp.91-2, pl.61.
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