1. Penleigh Boyd was a member of the Boyd artistic dynasty: his parents Arthur Merric Boyd and Emma Minnie Boyd were well-known artists of the day, and his brothers included the ceramicist Merric Boyd and the novelist Martin Boyd.
12 Facts About Penleigh Boyd
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Penleigh Boyd's son Robin Boyd was an architect, educator and social commentator, and his nephews Arthur Boyd, Guy Boyd and David Boyd were artists.
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Penleigh Boyd is best known as a landscapist with an accomplished handling of evanescent effects of light.
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Penleigh Boyd had his first exhibition at the Victorian Artists' Society at 18, and exhibited at the Royal Academy in London at 21.
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Penleigh Boyd won second prize in the Australian Federal Government's competition for a painting of the site of the new national capital, Canberra.
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Penleigh Boyd won the Wynne Prize in 1914 with Landscape.
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Penleigh Boyd's Queensland-born wife, Edith Susan Gerard Anderson, was herself a skilled painter and came from a cultivated family.
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Penleigh Boyd met Edith, a model in some work of E Phillips Fox, in Paris in 1912 and they married there on 15 October that year; E Phillips Fox was a witness, and Rupert Bunny and Bessie Gibson were among the guests at the reception.
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In 1914, with his painting career flourishing, Penleigh purchased a block of land at Warrandyte and built a family home and studio, "The Robins".
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Penleigh Boyd continued to paint prolifically for the rest of his life, although his war service left permanent psychological scars.
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Penleigh Boyd's passenger survived, but Penleigh suffered terrible injuries and died at the scene within minutes.
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Fortunately for his wife, the combination of the money from his estate plus a small inheritance from her father and an annual allowance from Penleigh Boyd's father enabled her to support their sons Pat and Robin without needing to work, even during the depths of the Great Depression.