Merric Boyd

William Merric Boyd, wanda aka fi sani da Merric Boyd (24 ga Yuni 1888 - 9 ga Satumba 1959), ƙwararren mai fasaha ne ɗan ƙasar Australiya, mai himma a matsayin mai gyaran yumbu, mai sassaka, kuma yana yin rubuce-rubuce mai yawa game da iyalinsa da kewaye a cikin zane-zanen fensir. An kira shi uban ginin tukwane na studio na Australiya.

Iyalan Boyd na tsararraki da yawa sun haɗa da masu zane-zane, masu sassaka, masu gine-gine da sauran ƙwararrun fasaha, waɗanda suka fara da iyayen Boyd Arthur Merric Boyd da Emma Minnie Boyd . 'Yan'uwan Boyd su ne Penleigh, mai zane-zanen shimfidar wuri, da kuma Martin, marubuci. Shi da matarsa, Doris, sun renon masu zane Arthur da David, da kuma Guy, mai sassaka. Babbar 'yarsu, Lucy, mai zane ce ta yumbu. 

 Bayani 
Shi ne na biyu cikin 'ya'ya biyar na Arthur Merric Boyd (1862–1940) da Emma Minnie à Beckett (1858–1936), waɗanda suka kafa zane-zane, Merric Boyd an haife shi a ranar 24 ga Yuni, 1888 a unguwar Melbourne da ke St Kilda, a Victoria . Arthur Merric Boyd da iyalinsa sun sami tallafin kuɗi daga kaka ta mahaifiyar Merric, Emma à Beckett. Arzikin Emma ne, wanda aka gada daga mahaifinta John Mills, tsohon mai laifi wanda ya kafa Melbourne Brewery, wanda ya ba iyalansu damar rayuwa cikin "daɗi". [1] Boyd ya zauna a Sandringham inda ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Haileybury har zuwa lokacin da yake ɗan shekara takwas. Iyalin sun ƙaura zuwa gonar iyali a Yarra Glen har abada kuma Boyd ya halarci Kwalejin Aikin Gona ta Dookie da burin mayar da hannunsa ga noma; sannan ya yi tunanin shiga Cocin Ingila a matsayin limamin coci, yana ɓatar da lokaci yana karatu a Kwalejin Tauhidi ta St John, Melbourne ; [2] daga baya ya ba wa Martin Boyd kayan aikin littafinsa mai lambar yabo ta 1955, mai suna A Difficult Young Man . [3]

 Sana'a 
A shekarar 1908 a Archibald McNair's Burnley Pottery, Boyd ya jefa tukunyarsa ta farko. Boyd ya kafa wani bita a gidan sa a Murrumbeena kuma an kafa murhun tukwane a can a shekarar 1911 tare da goyon bayan iyalinsa. Ya yi karatu a ƙarƙashin Lindsay Bernard Hall da Frederick McCubbin a Makarantar National Gallery, inda ya ɗauki yumbu a matsayin hanyar sassaka, amma ya zauna a kan tukwane a matsayin hanyarsa. Ya gudanar da baje kolin kayan dutse na farko, wanda aka kunna a McNair Bros kiln, a Centreway da ke Melbourne a shekarar 1912, kuma baje kolin sa na biyu a Besant Lodge jim kaɗan bayan haka. 

A shekarar 1915 ya auri Doris Lucy Eleanor Bloomfield Gough, wata daliba kuma mai zane, kuma suka zauna a Murrumbeena. Kafin ya shiga Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya, an ɗauki Boyd aiki a hannun Hans Fyansch na Kamfanin Porcelain na Australiya, Yarraville .   Boyd ya shiga Rundunar Jiragen Sama ta Australiya amma an sallame shi daga baya a Ingila kafin ya koma Ostiraliya a watan Satumba na 1919. Kafin yin hakan, ya ɗauki watanni shida yana horo kan dabarun tukwane a Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, Stoke-on-Trent,  yana karatun difloma a ƙarƙashin Dr. Mellor a Makarantar Fasaha ta Stoke, da kuma gina murhu a ƙarƙashin Mista ST Wilson, tsohon Shugaban Ƙungiyar Gine-gine ta Ingila. 

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 1959