Constance Matilda à Beckett b. 1860

Also known as Riley, Craig, Aunt Connie, née à Beckett Constance Matilda Brett
  • Artist (Painter)
Colonial female who painted for distraction, while her family was parodied in her nephew's novels as the product of a nouveau-riche convict father, whose descendants are now known as the Boyd family.

Citations

  • Scherzer, Karl (23 May 1885), 'Diary’.

  • Boyd, Martin, 'A Difficult Young Man’.

  • Boyd, Martin, 'The Montforts’.

  • Dobrez , Patricia & Herbst, Peter (1990), 'The Art of the Boyds’, Birkenhead Point, NSW.

  • Niall, Brendan (1988), 'Martin Boyd: A Life’, Melbourne.

  • Grishin, Sasha (1997), 'Constance Matilda à Beckett’, Australian National University Art collection: Selected Works, eds. Grishin, Sacha & McIntyre, Myra, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, p. 32.

See also

  • 'The Australian National University Art Collection: Selected Works, p. 33 Constance à Beckett, Untitled painted gumleaf (from a set of three), [1872]'.
  • 'PATRICIA DOBREZ (Heritage biography) ADD section 11: plate 459'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book