- George Price Boyce
George Price Boyce (1826–1897) was a British
watercolour painter of landscapes andvernacular architecture in thePre-Raphaelite style. He was a patron and friend ofDante Gabriel Rossetti .Originally trained as an architect after meeting David Cox, the
watercolour landscape painter, in August 1849, he became a painter. His early work shows the influence of Cox but he went on to develop his own detailed style under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite painters he grew to know. He metThomas Seddon and Rossetti in about 1849 andWilliam Holman Hunt andJohn Everett Millais in 1853. He travelled with the artist and criticJohn Ruskin to Venice in 1854 and probably to Switzerland in 1856. Boyce painted inDinan with Seddon in 1853 and inEgypt withFrank Dillon in 1861 and 1862. [http://victorianweb.org/painting/boyce/index.html George Price Boyce RWS (1826–1897): An Overview] at Victorianweb.org (Accessed 2 April, 2007).]Boyce exhibited both oils and watercolours at the
Royal Academy between 1853 and 1861. He was a founder member of theHogarth Club . He exhibited frequently at theRoyal Watercolour Society and was elected Associate in 1864 and Member in 1878. He retired from painting in 1893 through ill health.Boyce's diary has become a major source of information on Rossetti and the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood .References
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