Albert Chevallier Tayler

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Ceremony of the Garter painted 1901. Source: Collection of C.Michael Hogan

Albert Chevallier Tayler (5 April 1862 – 20 December 1925) was an English artist who specialised in portrait and genre painting, but was also involved in the

Royal Academy Schools and with avant-garde painters in Paris. He was educated at Bloxham School in Oxfordshire
.

Early years with the Newlyn School

He is most known for his twelve-year involvement with the Newlyn School of painting. The Newlyn School was spawned after many international artists followed the En plein air school in France, whereby artists would leave Paris and take up rural life in small colonies of kindred painters. Thence, as artists returned from France to their own countries, they sought out remote locations to congregate and pursue the En plein air method. The Newlyn School is also known as British Impressionism.

A typical painting of this early period is A Dress Rehearsal (1888), hung in the National Museums Liverpool. This painting makes use of light and shadow and is based upon a genre scene as might have occurred in Cornwall. The Newlyn School drew their subjects from everyday life in the local area. Other associate artists of the Newlyn School were Henry Scott Tuke, Thomas Cooper Gotch, Caroline Gotch, Stanhope Forbes, Leghe Suthers, Walter Langley and Elizabeth Armstrong. On arrival in Newlyn, he lived in lodgings in Henry & Elizabeth Maddern's Belle Vue House with Forbes and Blandford Fletcher.[1]

The London era

WG Grace
, painted 1905

During the 1890s he maintained connections with the art centre of London and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy; however, at about the turn of the century he moved to London and converted to a more genteel, urban lifestyle. Tayler began painting more grand scenes of the cities of Europe. In 1901 he painted one of his largest and most masterful works,

Edward III. This event circa 1348 led to Edward III founding the Order of the Garter
.

By 1903 Tayler was renowned and was commissioned to paint a large panel at the Royal Exchange in London; the resultant painting of The Five Kings depicts Kings Edward III of England, David of Scotland, Peter I of Cyprus, John of France and Waldemar IV of Denmark partaking in a feast hosted by the Master of the Society of Vintners in London in 1363.[2]

Tayler was an avid

Lord Leverhulme used the series to produce lithographs and advertise his Lever Brothers soap products. The promotion proved popular, and the National Portrait Gallery, London has nine of these images hanging. In 1906 he painted a famous picture of a cricket match in progress, Kent vs Lancashire at Canterbury, which was commissioned by Kent. In June 2006, the county sold the painting at auction for £680,000, a record price for a cricket painting.[3]

  • The Grey Drawing Room
    The Grey Drawing Room
  • The Quiet Hour
    The Quiet Hour
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Albert Chevallier Tayler 1909
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Albert Chevallier Tayler 1909
  • Girl Shelling Peas
    Girl Shelling Peas

References

  1. ^ "Chris Beetles Gallery: Albert Chevallier Tayler". Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  2. ^ From the official website of the Society of Vintners
  3. bbc.co.uk
    , 27 June 2006.

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