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Established in 1994, Galeria Aniela won the trust of some of the most important Australian artists with Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, David Boyd, Jamie Boyd, Lenore Boyd, Nathaniel Boyd, Bogdan Fialkowski, Pamela Griffith, Col Henry, Robin Holliday, Pin Hsun Hsiang, Danielle Legge, Regina Noakes, John Olsen, John Perceval, Celia Perceval, Tessa Perceval, Dino Rogliani, Kinga Rypinska, Garry Shead, Gaye Spencer, Michael Vaynman, Susan Weaver and also Arthur Merric Boyd, Emma Minnie Boyd, William Merric Boyd and Ray Crooke. We sell to a world wide buyer base, items of impeccable provenance and quality, recognizing the importance of a buyer confidence in purchasing genuine, authentic and original works of art. Galeria Aniela combines the knowledge of art and financial expertise. Our people focused approach ensures an enjoyable and a rewarding experience.

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• Biography Boyd artistic dynasty begin with the marriage of Emma Minnie à Beckett and Arthur Merric Boyd. They had five children, including William Merric Boyd (1888-1959) who was the father of Arthur Boyd (1920-1999) and David Boyd (b.1924).
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Emma Minnie was lively, beautiful, cultivated and compassionate, she painted landscapes in Tasmania and many seascapes, but she had a particular talent for genre. At their farm at Yarra Glen she successfully painted the four seasons in a frieze around the dining-room. They both exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1891 after which they moved briefly to Paris. On their return to Melbourne in 1894 they lived at Sandringham. In 1898 their works were included in the Exhibition of Australian Art in London at the Grafton Galleries. The family travelled overseas from time to time, and spent summers in Tasmania where the scenery inspired some of Boyd's best work; they exhibited regularly with the Victorian Artists' Society.  Many critics believe that Emma Minnie à Beckett (1858-1936) work to be superior to her husband's Arthur Merric Boyd (1862-1940).

Emma Minnie husband, Arthur Merric Boyd was born in New Zealand, son of Captain John Theodore Thomas Boyd and his wife Lucy Charlotte Martin.

Arthur Merric Boyd was an artist of charm and ability, who painted best in water-colour, without reaching the heights of his contemporaries in the Heidelberg school. While he was friendly with Frederick McCubbin and E. Phillips Fox, he did not associate much with other artists. According to his son Martin (1893-1972), the novelist, Arthur Merric Boyd was, if a little remote, just and generous, with a tolerant and enlightened way of bringing up children.

After Emma Minnie à Beckett death at Sandringham on 13 September 1936, her husband Arthur Merric Boyd lived at Rosebud where he was often joined by his grandson Arthur Boyd (1920-1999) to whom he gave painting lessons.

Emma Minnie à Beckett husband, Arthur Merric Boyd died at Murrumbeena on 30 July 1940, survived by three sons William Merric Boyd, known as Merric Boyd (potter), Theodore Penleigh Boyd (painter) and Martin à Beckett Boyd (writer) and a daughter Helen à Beckett Boyd (painter).

It can be said that the Boyd artistic dynasty really begin with the 14 January 1886 marriage of Emma Minnie à Beckett  (1858-1936) and Arthur Merric Boyd (1862-1940), both were established painters at the time of their marriage.

They had five children, including William Merric Boyd (1888-1959), known as Merric Boyd, who later become father of Australia's most renown and influential artist Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd  (1920-1999) known as Arthur Boyd.

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William Merric Boyd (1888-1959)       Email

William Merric Boyd (1888-1959) potter, son of Emma Minnie à Beckett (1858-1936) and Arthur Merric Boyd (1862-1940), married Doris Gough (1889-1960) painter, they had five children.
Their children are:

Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd (1920-1999), known as Arthur Boyd is William Merric Boyd (1888-1959) and Doris Gough (1889-1960) son.

He is a grandson of Emma Minnie à Beckett (1858-1936) and Arthur Merric Boyd (1862-1940).

Arthur Boyd (1920-1999) a successful painter, married Yvonne Lennie, painter, and they had three children, including Jamie Patrick Boyd (1948-) painter and sculptor.

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Jamie Patrick Boyd (1948) known as Jamie Boyd is son of Arthur Boyd (1920-1999) and his wife Yvonne Lennie.

Jamie is a Great grandson of Emma Minnie à Beckett (1858-1936) and Arthur Merric Boyd (1862-1940)

Jamie Boyd, painter and sculptor, married Helena Lopes. They have five children including the youngest, Nathaniel Boyd born 1983.

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Nathaniel Boyd born 1983 is the youngest son of Jamie Patrick Boyd (1948-) and his wife Helena

He is a Great great grandson of Emma Minnie à Beckett (1858-1936) and Arthur Merric Boyd (1862-1940).

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