John Boyne
Irish water-colour painter

John Boyne

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Irish water-colour painter
Gender:
Male
Places:
United Kingdom
Is:
Painter
Work field:
Arts
Birth:
(County Down, United Kingdom)
Death:
22 June 1810
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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.