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. Ej/cb. Object Type: painting, watercolor painting. Genre: landscape painting. Date: September 1862. Dimensions: 31.1 × 53.7 cm (12.2 × 21.1 in). Medium: watercolor and ink on paper. Collection: Trustees of the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford. BoyceBinsey1862
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