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The Boyce Papers: The Letters and Diaries of Joanna Boyce, Henry Wells and George Price Boyce - 2-volume set (Hardcover)
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The Boyce Papers: The Letters and Diaries of Joanna Boyce, Henry Wells and George Price Boyce - 2-volume set (Hardcover)
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The first full edition of the correspondence, between three artists
Joanna Boyce, her brother George P. Boyce and Henry Wells, who she
eventually married. It dates from the period 1845 to 1861, and
covers artistic life in both Paris and London, including the
Pre-Raphaelites. This correspondence, between three artists Joanna
Boyce, her brother George P. Boyce and Henry Wells, whom she
eventually married, dates from the period 1845 to 1861. They were
all friends of Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite circle, but in
addition Henry and Joanna both studied in Paris, and Joanna wrote
extensively about her time there, training with Thomas Couture. She
wrote for The Saturday Review as well as painting a small number of
very interesting and much admired pictures. Her brother George
established himself as a successful watercolourist and member of
the Old Watercolour Society, having been encouraged both by David
Cox on his Welsh sketching expeditions,and by Ruskin, whose letters
advising him what to paint in Venice are included here. Henry Wells
was primarily a portrait painter. At first he specialised in
miniatures, and was commissioned to paint Mary, princess of
Cambridge byQueen Victoria. There are vivid accounts of visits to
country houses to carry out commissions from their owners. The
three wrote constantly about techniques of painting and about the
new colours that became available at this period, and about their
visits to exhibitions both in Paris and London. They all
contributed to the Royal Academy and other exhibitions. In
addition, there is the extraordinary story of Joanna's and Henry's
courtship and marriage, at first encouraged and then viciously
opposed by Joanna's recently widowed mother. The correspondence
survives only in an unpublished transcript made in the 1940s, as
the originals were all destroyed in a bombing raid on Bath during
the second world war. Excerpts from George P. Boyce's diaries were
published in the 1930s, but the present edition contains a
considerable amount of new material.
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