 In 1861, following the death of his sister, he went to Egypt, where he shared a house in Giza with Frank Dillon and Egron Lundgren until the February of the following year.Rossetti, who disliked working out of doors borrowed Boyce's sketches to provide the background for his watercolour "Writing on the Sand" (1858; British Museum, London).Boyce exhibited both oils and watercolours at the Royal Academy between 1853 and 1861.