Merric Boyd displaying an example of his work for The Home magazine at Murrumbeena 1920, photo: Pegg Clarke
Born
William Merric Boyd
(1888-06-24)24 June 1888
St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Died
9 September 1959(1959-09-09) (aged 71)
Murrumbeena, Victoria, Australia
Burial place
Brighton General Cemetery
Nationality
Australian
Education
National Gallery School
Known for
Pottery
Movement
Bernard Hall, Frederick McCubbin
Spouse
Doris Boyd (née Gough) (m. 1915)
Children
Arthur Boyd
David Boyd
Guy Boyd
daughters Lucy and Mary.
Parents
Arthur Merric Boyd (father)
Emma Minnie Boyd (mother)
Relatives
Siblings:
Penleigh Boyd
Martin Boyd
Helen Read
William Merric Boyd, known more as Merric Boyd (24 June 1888 – 9 September 1959), was an Australian artist, active as a ceramicist, sculptor, and extensive chronicling of his family and environs in pencil drawing. He held the fine mythic distinction of being the father of Australian studio pottery.
The Boyd family of many generations includes painters, sculptors, architects and other arts professionals, commencing with Boyd's parents Arthur Merric Boyd and Emma Minnie a'Beckett Boyd. Boyd's brothers were Penleigh, a landscape artist, and Martin, a writer. His sister Helen Read, a navy wife, enjoyed taking to painting late in life. He and his wife, Doris, raised noted Australian artists, painters Arthur and David, and sculptor Guy.Their eldest daughter Lucy's ceramic painting benefited greatly from her unique inheritance.[1] Subsequent generations of Boyds are or have enjoyed their rightful approaches in the arts perceived around them.
professionals, commencing with Boyd's grandmother Emma Minnie Boyd and her husband Arthur MerricBoyd, Boyd's father Merric and mother Doris; 'She was the...
William MerricBoyd, known more as MerricBoyd (24 June 1888 – 9 September 1959), was an Australian artist, active as a ceramicist, sculptor, and extensive...
Arthur MerricBoyd (19 March 1862 – 30 July 1940) was an Australian painter. He and his wife Emma Minnie (née à Beckett) established a lifestyle of being...
Martin in 1857, and had 12 children, including Arthur MerricBoyd (1862–1940). Arthur MerricBoyd married Emma Minnie à Beckett (known as Minnie). Both...
Arthur Boyd, John Perceval and Peter Herbst, and it was renamed Arthur MerricBoyd Pottery (AMB). Following Boyd Beck's parents deaths, MerricBoyd in 1959...
tragically killed in a fall from a horse in 1896, MerricBoyd born 1888, Penleigh Boyd 1890, Martin Boyd in 1893, and her youngest and only daughter Helen...
Boyd (15 August 1890 – 27 November 1923) was an Australian artist. Penleigh Boyd was a member of the Boyd artistic dynasty: his parents Arthur Merric...
and Arthur MerricBoyd in 1886. Both were already established as painters at the time of their marriage. Their second-born son MerricBoyd married Doris...
included Albert Tucker, Joy Hester, Arthur Boyd and John Perceval. Boyd and Perceval were members of the Boyd artistic family who were centered at "Open...
on producing earthenware ceramics and helped to establish the Arthur MerricBoyd Pottery in Murrumbeena. Returning to painting in 1956 Perceval produced...
Penleigh's family to a degree continued and David Boyd, now deceased, son of Doris and MerricBoyd, gives description to some of these in his 2012 memoir...
War One. Boyd's siblings included the potter MerricBoyd (1888–1959), painters Penleigh Boyd (1890–1923) and Helen à Beckett Read, née Boyd (1903–1999)...
uses clay as a medium. Gwyn Hanssen Pigott Gladys Reynell Ian Sprague MerricBoyd Una Deerbon Pippin Drysdale Warrick Palmateer Jan Dunn Milton Moon Marea...
showing people who are disadvantaged in society. Yvonne met Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd in 1940 when they were attending drawing classes at the Commercial...
member of the Boyd artistic dynasty MerricBoyd (1888–1959): ceramicist, painter, and sculptor, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty Penleigh Boyd (1890–1923):...
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