William Merric Boyd was an Australian artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

 active as a ceramicist, painter, and sculptor.

Merric Boyd is credited as the father of studio pottery

Pottery

Pottery is the material from which the potteryware is made, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made is also called a pottery . Pottery also refers to the art or craft of the potter or the manufacture of pottery...

 in Australia; he is also known for his drawing, painting and sculpting. A member of the famous Boyd artistic dynasty

Boyd Family

The Boyd family is an Australian artistic dynasty. Members of the family over several generations have established themselves as painters, artists, illustrators, sculptors, potters, ceramists, writers, architects, graphic designers, and musicians....

, he was the brother of landscapist Penleigh Boyd

Penleigh Boyd

Theodore Penleigh Boyd was an Australian artist.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 Merric Boyd the ceramacist and the novelist Martin Boyd...

, writer Martin Boyd

Martin Boyd

Martin à Beckett Boyd was a member of Australia’s most prolific artistic dynasty of painters, sculptors, potters, writers, architects, graphic designers and musicians....

, and painter Helen Read. He married Doris Gough (Doris Boyd

Doris Boyd

Doris Boyd was an Australian artist active as a painter. She married William Merric Boyd potter and painter. A member of the Boyd Family she was the mother of David Boyd, Guy Boyd and Arthur Boyd.References...

) and was the father of the painters Arthur Boyd

Arthur Boyd

Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd, AC, OBE was one of the leading Australian painters of the late 20th Century. A member of the prominent Boyd artistic dynasty in Australia, his relatives included painters, sculptors, architects or other arts professionals. His sister Mary Boyd married John Perceval,...

 and David Boyd (artist)

David Boyd (artist)

David Fielding Gough Boyd, OAM was an Australian artist, and a member of the Boyd artistic dynasty.-Boyd family artistic dynasty:...

, and sculptor Guy Boyd

Guy Boyd (sculptor)

Guy Martin à Beckett Boyd was an Australian sculptor.Born in Murrumbeena, Victoria, he was a member of the famous Boyd artistic dynasty, and brother of painters Arthur Boyd and David Boyd. Guy Boyd was a potter and figurative sculptor noted for his ability to capture the fluidity and sensuality of...

; his daughter Mary Boyd married artist John Perceval

John Perceval

John de Burgh Perceval AO was a well-known Australian artist. Perceval was the last surviving member of a group known as the Angry Penguins who redefined Australian art in the 1940s...

 and later Sydney Nolan.

External links

• http://www.balgal.com/?id=boydmerricjugJug 1933 Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
  Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
  Art Gallery of Ballarat is the oldest and largest regional art gallery in Australia. Established in 1884 as the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery by the citizens of Ballarat both the building and part of its collection is listed on the Victorian Heritage Registerand by the National Trust of Victoria.The...
  
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• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
• (William) Merric Boyd (1888-1959) Gravesite at Brighton General Cemetery (Vic)
• Merric Boyd and the Boyd Family at Murrumbeena