Ceramic artist, born in St Kilda, Victoria, SE Australia, the elder son of Arthur Merric Boyd. He studied at the pioneering porcelain works at Yarraville, Victoria, and then served with the Royal Flying Corps in World War 1 at Wedgwood, Stoke-on-Trent. He returned to Australia in the early 1920s, founding a famous studio at Murrumbeena, outside Melbourne, and experimenting with new ceramic techniques.
William Merric Boyd (24 June 1888 - 9 September 1959) was an Australian artist active as a ceramicist, painter, and sculptor. A member of the famous Boyd artistic dynasty, he was the brother of landscapist Penleigh Boyd, writer Martin Boyd, and painter Helen Read, and father of the painters Arthur Boyd and David Boyd (artist), and sculptor Guy Boyd; his daughter Mary Boyd married artist John Perceval and later Sydney Nolan.
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