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Lot Essay
Boyne was born in Co. Down but left Ireland with his father, a joiner, aged nine to live in London, where he became apprentice to the engraver William Byrne (1743-1805). According to Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists, Shannon, 1969, vol. I, p. 75, he travelled for a time with a company of strolling players, but returned to London in 1781 where became a master in a drawing school.
The present drawing is typical of Boyne’s style of half caricature, his subjects set in an interior, such as his Meeting of Connoisseurs in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and The Quack Doctor, British Museum, London. He exhibited eighteen works, including the present one, at the Royal Academy from 1788 to 1809. He died in Penton Place, Pentonville, London on 22 June 1810.
The present drawing is typical of Boyne’s style of half caricature, his subjects set in an interior, such as his Meeting of Connoisseurs in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and The Quack Doctor, British Museum, London. He exhibited eighteen works, including the present one, at the Royal Academy from 1788 to 1809. He died in Penton Place, Pentonville, London on 22 June 1810.