Alice Boyd

Alice Boyd (1825–1897) was a Scottish Pre-Raphaelite painter who was also the 14th Laird of Penkill Castle in Ayrshire in Scotland.

[1] In 1858, her mother died and she went to Newcastle-on-Tyne to live for a time with her grandfather, William Losh, a well-to-do merchant.

"[4] While staying with her grandfather, Alice met the pre-Raphaelite painter and poet William Bell Scott, who was then master of the Government School of Design.

Trained by Bell Scott, Boyd worked in similar genres: historical and mythical subjects, landscapes, and portraits.

[4] Boyd's family papers are held by Princeton University and include an unpublished history by a relative of her life at Penkill Castle.