George Price Boyce.RWS
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Elgiva
Painting ID:: 73740 new24/George Price Boyce.RWS-453459.jpg
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George Price Boyce.RWS
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1826-1897
English painter. He was the son of a prosperous wine merchant and pawnbroker. His childhood was spent in London, and in 1846 he was apprenticed to the firm of architects Wyatt & Brandon, where he remained for three years. He was always fascinated by ancient buildings but gradually lost interest in architecture as a career. In 1849, perhaps as a result of meeting David Cox at Betws-y-Coed (Gwynedd, Wales), he decided to become a painter. In the early 1850s Boyce drew landscape and architectural subjects with a fluent watercolour technique derived from Cox. In 1854 Boyce made an extended journey to Italy; he painted views of buildings in Venice and Verona, which were commended by Ruskin, and semi-abstract twilight studies |
Elgiva |
oil on canvas Private Collection
Date 1855
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Related Paintings::. | Lesendes Madchen in rotem Trikot | Worker | The Artist s Wife,jeanne | |
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