page_title: Emma Minnie Boyd
section_title: Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Emma Minnie Boyd / Marriage
caption_attribution_description: English: Interior with Figures, The Grange
context_page_description: Emma Minnie Boyd, born Emma Minnie à Beckett, was an Australian artist.
  Boyd exhibited publicly between 1874 and 1932. She showed with the Victorian Artists Society, the Centennial International Exhibition 1888, the Royal Academy of Arts, and in a joint show with her husband at Como House in Melbourne in 1902, amongst other venues. Over one hundred pounds worth of artworks were sold at the 1902 exhibition and commissions were given for further copies of works sold. She had a talent for watercolour landscapes, although she painted in both watercolour and oil, and a mix of interiors, figures, portraits, still life and flower studies.
  She is part of the Boyd Artistic Dynasty, an Australian artist family, which began with Emma and her husband Arthur and the work that they created that influenced their children and grandchildren to pursue artistic careers.
context_section_description: She married Arthur Merric Boyd in 1886. He was born in New Zealand in 1862 and was the son of a Naval officer, he was also an aspiring artist. His family moved to Melbourne in the mid-1870s where Arthur Merric Boyd began to train as a painter but without the same familial support that his wife received from her family. They met while they were at art school together. It was fortunate for Arthur Merric Boyd that he married into a wealthy family. His own parents would have been unable to support him as making a good living as an artist, especially with his own family to look after, would have been difficult. The à Beckett's were able to give the young couple and their children the means to pursue careers in the arts. 
  Together Arthur and Minnie had five children, Gilbert born 1886, who was tragically killed in a fall from a horse in 1896, Merric Boyd born 1888, Penleigh Boyd 1890, Martin Boyd in 1893, and her youngest and only daughter Helen 1903. All her children were involved in the arts, including Helen who became a painter. After her marriage Emma Minnie and Arthur Merric Boyd continued to receive support from her family. They moved into one of the family homes, The Grange, where they began raising their own family. As a woman who was well off, she had nannies to help her with the children and servants to help her with the house, duties expected of women in this time. This allowed her to continue to work even after starting a family.
caption: Interior with Figures, The Grange
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