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William Thomas Nichols Boyce 1857-1911
Return of the Herring Fleet
No doubt painted off the North East Coast! This beautiful watercolour by the ever popular Boyce is typical of his style, featuring sailing boats and a steam ship in the distance.
Watercolour 11" x 17" signed and dated 1894
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
William Thomas Nichols Boyce 1857-1911
William Thomas Nichols Boyce was a marine and landscape painter in oil and watercolour. Originally from Norfolk he moved to South Shields in 1872. He was a joiner and a draper before becoming a full time artist. Boyce exhibited at the South Shields Art Club and the Bewick Art Club, Newcastle, and at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle from 1905 until his death.
Boyce's sons were all artistically gifted:Albert Ernest Boyce, Herbert Walter Boyce and Norman Septimus Boyce.
