George Price Boyce

George Price Boyce (* September 24, 1826 in Bloomsbury, † February 11, 1897 in Chelsea ) was a British architect and watercolor painter.

Life

George was the eldest child of George Boyce and his wife Anne Price. He attended school in Chipping Ongar, Epping Forest, and later studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. After his return to England (1846 ), he worked on the renowned London architect office " Wyatt & Brandon ". After a meeting with the artist David Cox, he decided that his real interest was in painting. In 1849 he resigned and began with the financial support of his father, as he already promoted his artistically talented sister Joanne. Boyce studied at the Royal Academy of Arts and Cox stood him as mentor. Through his fellow students Thomas Seddon and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, he came up with the Pre-Raphaelite art movement in contact. The influence of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was soon in his works. By John Ruskin, who became interested in his work, Boyce went on a study trip to France, Italy and Egypt. About Rossetti, Fanny Cornforth, he learned to know and later went on a love affair with her ​​a. In 1862 he moved to Chelsea, in the vicinity of Rossetti, where he lived until his death.

In the 1940s, the diaries of George Price Boyce were released, they are an invaluable source of information on Rossetti and the Pre- Raphaelites Brotherhood of.