Penleigh Boyd
| Penleigh Boyd | |
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Ghost Gums at Kangaroo Flat, painted by Boyd in 1921.
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| Born |
Theodore Penleigh Boyd 15 August 1890 Westbury, Wiltshire, England |
| Died | 27 November 1923 (aged 33) Warragul, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | National Gallery Art School |
| Known for | Landscape artist |
| Movement | Boyd family |
| Spouse(s) | Edith Susan Gerard Anderson |
| Children | Pamela Boyd, Pat Boyd, Robin Boyd |
| Parents |
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| Relatives |
Merric Boyd, Martin Boyd (brothers); Arthur Boyd, Guy Boyd, David Boyd (nephews) |
| Awards |
Wynne Prize 1914 Landscape – painter |
Theodore Penleigh 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 Boyd (1862–1940) and Emma Minnie Boyd (née à Beckett) were well-known artists of the day, and his brothers included the ceramicist Merric Boyd (1888–1959) and the novelist Martin Boyd (1893–1972). His son Robin Boyd (1919–1971) became a famous and influential architect, educator and social commentator, and his nephews Arthur Boyd, Guy Boyd and David Boyd became prominent artists.
Penleigh Boyd is best known as a landscapist with an accomplished handling of evanescent effects of light. A notable influence was artist E. Phillips Fox, who introduced him to plein air techniques when they were neighbours in Paris in 1912–3. At his death his obiturists compared him to Arthur Streeton and rated him as one of the most promising painters of his generation.
Born at Penleigh House, Westbury, Wiltshire in England, Boyd received his artistic training from his parents and at the National Gallery Art School. He had his first exhibition at the Victorian Artists' Society at 18, and exhibited at the Royal Academy in London at 21. He won second prize in the Australian Federal Government's competition for a painting of the site of the new national capital, Canberra. He won the Wynne Prize in 1914 with Landscape.
His Queensland-born wife, Edith Susan Gerard Anderson, was herself a skilled painter and also came from a cultivated family. Her father had been Director of the Queensland Department of Public Instruction, her brother Arthur was a prominent doctor, and her eldest sister Maud was of one of the first women to graduate with a B.A. degree from the University of Sydney (and is possibly Queensland's first female university graduate).
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