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Bowman, John Shearer, b. 1819

John Shearer Bowman was a Scottish immigrant to Australia. Being both a painter and an art teacher and a regular exhibitor to exhibitions in Sydney ...

Bown, John

Bown is an interior designer, working for David Jones department store, Sydney. He was an exhibitor in the Society of Interior Designers of Australia's 1962 ...

Bowry, William

William Bowry was active in 1880s New South Wales as a painter. He exhibited in several competitive exhibitions including the Art Society of NSW and ...

Box, James, b. 1862

A carpenter and architectural draughtsman, James Box studied architecture at the NSW Technical College in the 1880s and in 1886 he exhibited a number of ...

Boxall, Arthur d'Auvergne, b. 1895

South Australian born painter and teacher, active during the interwar period. Studied at the Slade art school in London and later lived and worked in ...

Boyce, Donald

Boyd, Adolarious Humphrey, b. 1829

An amateur photographer, Adolarious Humphrey Boyd took photographs of convicts in Tasmania (not surprising given his job as a penal officer).

Boyd, Arthur, b. 1920

A member of the gifted Boyd family, and grandson of his namesake, the painter Arthur Merric Boyd, Arthur first attended night classes at Melbourne's National ...

Boyd, Arthur Merric, b. 1862

Arthur Merric Boyd Sr. was the pater familias of a prolific and talented artistic family that is still producing art to the present day.

Boyd, John Graham

John Graham Boyd was a painter active in 1850s Melbourne. There is some speculation he may be the Mr Boyd who painted scenery for Melbourne's ...

Boyd, Joseph F.

Joseph F. Boyd was a regular exhibitor of his oil paintings in Melbourne and Sydney throughout the 1860s, 70s and 80s. Of those works that ...

Boyd, Merric, b. 1888

Merric Boyd's organic decorative ceramics led him to be credited as the father of studio pottery in Australia. He was also a dominant figure in ...

Boyd, Penleigh, b. 1890

Early 20th century Melbourne painter and cartoonist and the son of painters Arthur Merric Boyd Snr and Emma Minnie Boyd. As a seargant in the ...

Boyd, Robin (Gerard Penleigh), b. 1919

Mid 20th century Melbourne Modernist architect, author, critic and illustrator. Born into the artistic Boyd dynasty, he was a partner of the Grounds, Romberg and ...