Australian artist Emma Minnie Boyd (1858-1936) was born into the privileged à Beckett family and became known to family and friends as Minnie.
While it was rare for women in late-nineteenth-century colonial Victoria to receive an art education, Minnie's family nurtured her artistic talent and she studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne.
She would eventually become one of Australia’s most significant women artists of the late nineteenth century.