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After a childhood among artists, French migr s and English radicals in Regency London, Georgiana lived as a young woman at her father's castle in the Highlands. A gifted portraitist, professionally trained in London, she earned her own living in Edinburgh before making the choice between marriage and a career. After marrying Andrew McCrae in 1830 she followed her husband in his erratic progress from Edinburgh to London and then to Port Phillip, where he was successively lawyer, squatter and goldfields magistrate. The varied fortunes of the McCraes are recounted in a story whose tragic...

The brilliant painter, Arthur Boyd (1920-99) was a member of Australia's most famous artistic dynasty. This excerpt from Brenda Niall's prize-winning study, "The Boyds", reveals Arthur Boyd as a man who lived in a private world of painting, family, friends and familiar surroundings, yet developed into an iconic Australian artist. "Brenda Niall On Arthur Boyd" is the third in MUP's "Masterworks" series, which celebrates distinguished Australian writers and ideas.