George Price Boyce (1826-1897) trained as an architect, but turned to the painting of watercolours after meeting David Cox. Some idea of Cox's style can be gathered from some previous posts here:
http://petrusplancius.livejournal.com/69195.html
http://petrusplancius.livejournal.com/13115.html?thread=34363
http://petrusplancius.livejournal.com/232278.html
It can be seen that Cox's landscapes are very closely observed, but Boyce developed a more precise and static approach, showing pre-Raphaelite influence after he came to know Rossetti, Holman Hunt, Millais and others. At his best, his landscape studies have a strange hypnotic quality, and his work deserves to better known I think; though that is true of quite a number of English watercolourists, largely because of the difficulties in exhibiting works that are so liable to fade. This shows the White Swan inn at Pangbourne, on the Thames.





Abinger Mill Pond, in Surrey.



Landscape at Wotton, Surrey: Autumn 1864-5.



Streatley Mill, another place on the Thames (opposite Goring, between Reading and Oxford); a pretty village in a lovely setting. I once lived there for a while and have fond memories of it. Alas, the mill burnt down in the 1920s, here are some old photographs of it:

http://www.francisfrith.com/streatley,berkshire/photos/mill-and-bridge-1890_27043/#utmcsr=google.co.uk&utmcmd=referral&utmccn=google.co.uk
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/5716331793/




Old buildings at Kingswear in Devon, 1874.



A Downland view.



Farm buildings at Dorchester in Oxfordshire. A Thames-side town with an old Abbey in it, which contains some fine things, including this wonderful Norman lead font (11th Century):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dorchester_Abbey_Normannisches_Taufbecken.jpg



An ink-drawing by Rossetti showing Boyce with Fanny Cornforth, Rossetti's blowsy Muse.