John Boyne (artist)

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 a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Boyne, John". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.