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Support from her father and her older brother George Price Boyce helped Joanna Mary Boyce achieve an early and rigorous education in the visual arts. She began a formal study of drawing by the age of eleven with Charles John Mayle Whichelo, and filled multiple sketchbooks as a young teenager. At the
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The dignity of all the treatment—the beautiful imagination of faint but pure colour, place this picture, to my mind, among, those of the very highest power and promise. Complete achievement there is not in it as yet ... but if this artist, looking always to Nature and her own thoughts for the thing
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Despite Boyce’s frequently mentioned association with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, commentators have noted that Boyce was not simply an acolyte of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The art historian Pamela Gerrish Nunn notes that Boyce drew comparisons to the
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to be expressed, will strive to express them, with some memory of the great Venetians in her treatment of each separate hue, it seems to me that she might entertain the hope of taking place in the very first rank of painters.
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Following her first exhibition, Boyce continued to pursue artistic excellence through extensive sketching and international art-viewing expeditions. She spent 1857 in Italy, and in December of that year married miniaturist
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Later critics have observed that Boyce’s reputation was somewhat constrained by her early death, but her art has been highlighted in exhibitions up until the present day. One early posthumous exhibition was held in the
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in 1935. Select artworks by Boyce, along with portraits by and of other women significant to the Pre-Raphaelite movement, were exhibited in London’s
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from contemporary critics. Writer Simon Poë additionally observes that Boyce's time at Couture's atelier impacted her work with influences from the
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in 2019 in an exhibit entitled "Pre-Raphaelite Sisters". Not all of Boyce's artworks survive, as some were destroyed in bombings during
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Boyce died on 15 July 1861, after the birth of her third child. Her last completed painting,
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English women painters from the early 19th century who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art
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described her as "a wonderfully gifted woman", and another obituarist called her a genius.
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was the daughter of George Boyce, a former wine-merchant who had found prosperity as a
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Joanna, George, and Henry : a Pre-Raphaelite tale of art, love and friendship
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At the time of her death, contemporaries remarked on Boyce's talent as an artist:
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Joanna, George and Henry: A Pre-Raphaelite Tale of Art, Love and Friendship
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who had depicted Elgiva eight years prior. Following the exhibition,
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The Departure: An Episode of the Child's Crusade 13th Century,
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This photograph is a reproduction of H. T. Wells' painting
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Boyce first exhibited her artwork publicly in 1855 at the
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The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920
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Joanna Mary Boyce's sketchbooks in the British Museum
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Portrait of Joanna Mary Boyce and three family members, seated around a table.
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
H.T. Wells
Pre-Raphaelite
watercolourist
George Price Boyce
Maida Hill
London
pawnbroker
Cary's art academy
James Mathews Leigh
Paris
Thomas Couture
atelier

Royal Academy
John Ruskin
Ford Madox Brown
John Everett Millais
Ruskin
Henry Tanworth Wells
Rome

Fanny Eaton
Fanny Eaton
Yale Center for British Art
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Tate
National Portrait Gallery
World War II

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