John Boyne (artist)

John Boyne (circa 1750 - 22 June 1810) was an Irish water-colour painter, engraver, and caricaturist.^[1]

Life

John Boyne born in the County Down about between 1750 and 1759. Boyne and his father moved to England when Boyne was 9 years old. He was apprenticed to William Byrne, the landscape engraver. Strickland claims that "owing to his idle and dissipated habits he was not successful" as an engraver.^[2]

He was a member of a group of strolling players for a time, before returning to London in 1781. There he took up a position as a master in a drawing school and returned to art practice. Between 1788 and 1809 he exhibited 18 figure subjects and caricatures with the Royal Academy. The British Museum hold 2 drawings by him from a series of heads from Shakespeare's players, "King Lear" and "The Quack Doctor".^[2] His "C. Macklin and Miss Pope as Shylock and Portia" was engraved by Nutter in 1790. The Royal Collection Trust hold a number of works by or after Boyne.^[3]

He died at his home at Penton Place, Pentonville on 22 June 1810.^[2]

Selected works

• "Meeting of Connoisseurs" held in the V&A^[2]
• Banditti (1783)
• "General Blackbeard wounded at the battle of Leadenhall" (1784)^[4]

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Boyne, John". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

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