Boyds will be Boyds, it seems. And so it's unsurprising that Alexander, the first grandchild of the legendary painter, the late Arthur Boyd, is himself an extraordinary artist.
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On Sunday, concert pianist Alexander played to a sellout Canberra audience - fittingly, in the National Gallery of Australia, which is preparing to house another exhibition of his grandfather's works.
Like most of his family, Alexander now lives in London, where fewer people are aware that he is part of Australia's best-known artistic dynasty.
"It does occasionally crop up even there, though," he says. "My dad, Jamie, suffers from it more than I do, being as he is a very fine painter. But his successful career as an artist is much more impressive than me having any kind of career as a pianist ... I don't get so many comparisons as he does."
Alexander, the eldest of Arthur and his wife Yvonne's grandchildren, was a child prodigy who, at 11 years of age, played Mozart's Piano Concerto No.1 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
However, he prefers to speak up the gifts of his four younger siblings, who also all perform: violin, cello, singing, acting, even film directing.
Alexander says his cellist brother, Nathaniel, with whom he plays regularly, has also sold paintings at exhibitions.
"As for me, I do like painting, but I'm crap," he laughs.
The 42-year-old remembers Arthur and Yvonne (yet another accomplished painter) "as, well, my granny and grandpa".
"I was very close to them. I just remember them in a very personal way, sharing little moments with them, whether it's my grandmother making me a bowl of porridge in the kitchen or my grandfather taking me for a driving lesson...
"Being the first grandchild, I was very lucky and I got to spend more time with them than my siblings. [Arthur] was very influential on me, and encouraging of my piano playing."
Arthur Boyd, a former Australian of the Year, gifted much of his family's property, as well as the copyright to all of his art, to the nation before he died in 1999.
The National Gallery of Australia will open the Arthur Boyd: Agony and Ecstasy exhibit in September, which will include more than 100 of his paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures and tapestries.
