John Boyne (artist)

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A Meeting of Connoisseurs, watercolour by John Byrne, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum

John Boyne, born in the County Down about 1750, is known as a water-colour painter of some repute. He was apprenticed to William Byrne, the landscape engraver, but it is said led a wild kind of life. He died in 1810.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "BOYNE, John" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.