Hello Listers FYI >>>>>>>>>> Dear Richard Boyd While researching lot 97 in our Modern First Editions auction on Thursday 16th December I came across your website and thought I'd drop you a line in case you or any other Boyd clan member might be interested in this. There are images of three of the photos linked to the description online. 97 * Pre-Raphaelites. An album containing twenty-four cartes-de-visite photographs, c. 1860s/70s, all window-mounted and many identified in pencil or ball-point pen, mounted circular vign. photo frontis. of Alice Boyd, identified and dated 1860, a.e.g., orig. calf, stamped with repeating vertical rules, two rivetted brass straps and shield, clasps in working order, rubbed on joints, approx. 15 x 12 cm The Boyds and Courtney-Boyds were lairds of Penkill and Trochrig, Ayrshire. Alice Boyd, whose portrait appears as the 'frontispiece' of the album, had a long affair with the Pre-Raphaelite artist and critic William Bell Scott. He spent much of his time at Penkill with Alice Boyd and both of them knew the Rossetti family well. List of portraits in the album: mounted circular vignette of a woman painting, identified on mount as Alice Boyd, 1860; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; unidentified woman by John Edwards, London; William Rossetti, signed on lower mount; unidentified man, by Ross & Thomson, Edinburgh; Dante Gabriel Rossetti, by W. & D. Downey, Newcastle & London; werhestCoGrrs Garomnetlmow) eyoyC.otliD; errick, Brighton; Mrs Emma Fauna(?) - (eldest sister of H.C. Courtney), by H.P. Robinson; unidentified man, by David Campbell, Ayr; unidentified older woman [as last], by David Campbell, Ayr; Mrs Mayhew & Eleanor Margaret (eldest daughter), first wife of Rev. Courtney (half-brother to Spencer & Alice Boyd); Christina Rossetti, by W. Jeffrey, London; Mrs Lowell - grandmother and mother of present owner's mother, Evelyn May Courtney-Boyd, by George Bell, Carlisle; Eleanor Margaret Courtney (Mayhew when born), later Courtney-Boyd (half-sister to Evelyn May), by F. Moor, Ventnor; [Lawrence] Alma-Tadema?; Miss [Laura] Epps, wife of Alma-Tadema, by John Watkins, London; unidentified couple, by Lacombe & Lacroix, Geneva; John Campbell Kennedy (four years old, 14th November 1877), by P. Devine, Edinburgh. (1)Illustrations Available£300-500 Best wishes Chris Albury Cataloguer and Valuer (Historical Documents, Ephemera, Autographs & Photographs) Dominic Winter Book Auctions The Old School, Maxwell Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN1 5DR, UK Tel +44 (0)1793 611340 Fax +44 (0)1793 491727 www.dominicwinter.co.uk <<<<<<