Australian family of artists and writers founded by the landscape painters Arthur Merric Boyd (1862-1940) and his wife Emma Minnie Boyd (1858-1936). Their children included (William) Merric Boyd (1888-1959), who founded Australia's first significant studio pottery at Murrumbeena with his wife, the ceramicist Doris Lucy Eleanor Boyd (c. 1883-1960); and (Theodore) Penleigh Boyd (1890-1923), who was a noted landscape painter and etcher. Penleigh's son (1) Robin Boyd became a well-known architect and writer, who helped to develop a more critical approach to Australian architecture and culture. Merric and Doris had five children, all of whom became artists and were at some stage involved with ceramic art. Among them were Lucy Boyd (b 1915); Guy Boyd (1923-88), who was also a sculptor; David Boyd (b 1925); and Mary Boyd (b 1926), who married John Perceval (1944) and then Sydney Nolan (1978). The most noted, however, was (2) Arthur Boyd, the celebrated Expressionist painter.
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