Alexander Stuart Boyd (1854–1930)
Wellcome Collection
Alexander Stuart Boyd [also known as A. S. Boyd] was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 7 February 1854. After leaving school, he worked as a clerk in the Royal Bank of Scotland in Glasgow, painting during in his spare time. In 1879 he left the bank to pursue a career as an artist. He had already started exhibiting at galleries in Scotland, and in the late 1870s contributed illustrations to Good Words magazine. He 1880 he studied briefly at Heatherley's School of Fine Art on London. By the following year he had returned to Glasgow and began working as a cartoonist for Quiz a local magazine. At the same time, he continued to paint and in 1885 was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours (RSW) and joined the Glasgow Art Club.
In 1891 he returned to London and began drawing illustrations and cartoons for Graphic, Punch, Black and White, Idler and many other magazines.
Boyd exhibited at Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, Royal Academy, and Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in London; Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; and at the Royal Scottish Academy and Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour in Edinburgh.
In 1912 he emigrated to New Zealand where he continued his career as an artist and was elected President of the Auckland Society of Artists. He died in Auckland on 21 August 1930.
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
