Alice Boyd: View from the window of Balcony House, Tynemouth, 1864

Alice Boyd (1825-1897) was a Scottish Pre-Raphaelite painter who was also the 14th Laird of Penkill Castle in Ayrshire in Scotland.  Alice met the pre-Raphaelite painter and poet William Bell Scott, who was then master of the Government School of Design, and became his pupil in 1859. Trained by Bell Scott, Boyd worked in similar genres: historical and mythical subjects, landscapes, and portraits.

Boyd set about transforming the castle into a centre for Pre-Raphaelite art. She built an artist's studio in which she and Scott worked, and entertained prominent members of the Brotherhood such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. Other Pre-Raphaelite artists and their friends also came to Penkill to work on their art, including Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Algernon Swinburn.

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