Albert Chevallier Tayler
Albert Chevallier Tayler RA (born April 5, 1862 in Leytonstone , Essex , † December 20, 1925 in London ) was a British late Impressionist painter and an important representative of the Newlyn School , an artist colony of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
life and work
Albert Chevallier Tayler was born in 1862, the youngest of the seven sons of lawyer William Moseley Tayler. After attending Bloxham School in Oxfordshire , Tayler first studied art at Heatherley's Art School and the Royal Academy School . In 1879 he received a scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art . His painting studies finally brought him to Paris in 1881 , where he was heavily influenced by the Impressionists and studied with Jean-Paul Laurens . In 1884 he moved to Newlyn , Cornwall, and joined the local artists' colony, later known as the Newlyn School . Outstanding artists of this group, with whom Tayler soon became friends, were Henry Scott Tuke , Thomas Cooper Gotch , Stanhope Forbes and the founder of the colony, Walter Langley . The painters in this group of artists painted in the open air in watercolors and oils and depicted the simple life in the fishing villages.
In 1887 Albert Chevallier Tayler was able to exhibit for the first time at the Royal Academy of Arts and in 1891 he won the Hors Concours Prize of the Paris Salon . From 1893 onwards, his style changed from genre painting to romantic themes and scenes. In 1895 Tayler finally moved back to London and later lived near Hyde Park . In 1896 Tayler married Elizabeth Cotes, daughter of a doctor from the retinue of Albert Eward , then Prince of Wales and later King. At the turn of the century, Tayler reached the high point of his career with regular exhibitions in the Fine Art Society , the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Academy of Arts, so that he often did not sell his pictures at all or under price. Now he also painted large-scale history paintings like The Ceremony of the Garter in 1901, in which the legendary scene is displayed on which the foundation of the Order of the Garter back. King Edward III has picked up his mistress Catherine Grandison's garter that she had lost and will now call it his own. In 1910 Tayler was appointed a member of the Royal Academy, where he had exhibited a total of 49 paintings, and was made Honorary Secretary of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists founded by Thomas Cooper Gotch in 1887 . In World War I it fate hit hard because his two sons were killed. The artist died of acute bronchitis on December 20, 1925 and was buried in St. Mary's Cemetery in Kensal Green .
Tayler had been a remarkably good cricketer since his youth . After becoming a well-known artist, he was accepted into the Artists Cricket Club and played in the regular matches between visual artists and writers against personalities such as Arthur Conan Doyle , Ernest William Hornung , PG Wodehouse and JM Barrie . Tayler had started painting cricket games in the open air early on, which was considered very unusual at the time, but later also made him very popular. In 1905 Tayler created a series of twelve watercolor pictures, on which the most famous cricketers of the time are depicted in photo-like snapshots and which are now in the National Portrait Gallery in London. In 1906 Tayler painted a scene of the cricket match between Kent and Lancashire in Canterbury , which had been commissioned by Kent. In June 2006, this painting reached a record price of £ 680,000 at an auction put up for sale by County Kent.
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| SURNAME | Tayler, Albert Chevallier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English late impressionist painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leytonstone , Essex |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1925 |
| Place of death | London |