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On 24th September 1826 George Price Boyce was born to George Boyce.
1853. George Price Boyce (age 26). "St Brelade's Bay, Jersey".
On 20th September 1853 [his father] George Boyce died.
1854. George Price Boyce (age 27). "Anstey's Cove [Map]".
1857. George Price Boyce (age 30). "A Girl by a Beech Tree in a Landscape".
1857. George Price Boyce (age 30). "Edward the Confessor's Chapel, Westminster Abbey [Map], with Tombs of Henry V. and Edward I".
1862. George Price Boyce (age 35). "At Binsey, near Oxford".
1864-5. George Price Boyce (age 37). "Landscape at Wotton, Surrey: Autumn". The house in the painting is Wotton House, Surrey, the seat of the Evelyn family. The seventeenth-century diarist, John Evelyn, was born there, so it has a special literary interest. It was given a more imposing appearance later, but the situation remains the same.
1866-7. George Price Boyce (age 39). "A Surrey Common In November".
1868. George Price Boyce (age 41). "Pensosa d'altrui". Model Mary Leslie. Inscribed on the verso on a label 'no 6', the title and 'George P. Boyce 10 Upper Cheyne Row Chelsea' and on another label in the same hand 'Light from the left hand!'. See The Athenaeum 8th May 1869.
Mary Leslie: Before 6th March 1871 Mary Leslie died of consumption.
1868. George Price Boyce (age 41). "The Oxford Arms [Map], Warwick Lane, City of London".
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
The Athenaeum 1869 May 08. [8th May 1869] We may next turn to the works of Mr. Boyce (age 42). First of these is, On the Skirts of Smithfield, looking West, Midsummer, 1867 (117), a strange, but very original subject, being a picture of the rubbishheaps of the place while under transformation, and the backs of miserable houses of red brick of the deepest hues, and shabby, tumble-down hoardings of wood blanched in the sun; a temporary wreck of the old in course of changing for the new. Huge lying posters in red, green, white and yellow, each coarser and falser than its neighbour, overlook the dust-heaps of two centuries. Calmly in the glare of smoky summer sunlight rises the dingy stone church tower of Wren's building, — a pathetic picture for those who can read, and for artists who can enjoy, its exquisite tones and admirable atmospheric grading; a puzzle for those who judge by the common tests of opinion. For the comfort of several of the latter who strongly resented the introduction of two gambolling cats in a similar picture by this painter — as if London cats were not frequent in the wastes of the City — we add, that there are no cats to puzzle them here.
1871. George Price Boyce (age 44). "The Teme from Ludlow".The view is taken from Ludlow Bridge looking up the river. The picture was exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society's exhibition, 1872-73, No. 386
1873-4. George Price Boyce (age 46). "A Wooded Valley in Surrey".
1874. George Price Boyce (age 47). "The fortified manor house at Stokesay, Shropshire [Map]".
On 9th February 1897 George Price Boyce (age 70) died.
The Diary of George Price Boyce. 1941. The Diary of George Price Boyce was lost in the Second World War. Fortunately a year before its destruction by bombing in Bath the diary were consigned to Randall Davies to print in the Old Water-Colour Society 's Club Nineteenth Annual Volume, 1941. Although the original is lost, some content survives.