Albert Chevallier Tayler
Albert Chevallier Tayler RA ( born April 5, 1862 in Leytonstone, Essex, † December 20, 1925 in London) was a British painter of the late Impressionism and important representative of the Newlyn School, an artists colony in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Life and work
Albert Chevallier Tayler was born in 1862 as the youngest of the seven sons of the lawyer William Moseley Tayler. After visiting the Bloxham School in Oxfordshire Tayler went to the Heatherley 's Art School and the Royal Academy School first art studies. In 1879 he received a scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art in painting in his finally brought him to Paris in 1881, where he was strongly influenced by the Impressionists and studied with Jean Paul Laurens. In 1884 he moved to Newlyn in Cornwall and joined the resident artist's colony that later became known as Newlyn School. Outstanding artists of this group, with which Taylor became friends soon were Henry Scott Tuke, Thomas Cooper Gotch, Stanhope Forbes and the founder of the colony, Walter Langley. The painters of this group of artists powered outdoor painting in watercolor and oil paints and asked the simple life in the fishing villages dar.
Albert Chevallier Tayler 1887 was the first exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1891 and won the Hors Concours price of the Paris Salon. After 1893 his style of genre painting changed itself to romantic themes and scenes. 1895 moved Tayler finally back to London and lived near Hyde Park later. 1896 married Elizabeth Tayler Cotes, daughter of a doctor from the wake of Albert Eward, the then Prince of Wales and future King. Around the turn of the century reached Tayler with regular exhibitions at the Fine Art Society, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Academy of Arts the peak of his career, so he often sold his paintings or not at all under the price. Now he also painted large-scale history paintings such as The Ceremony of the Garter in 1901, in which the legendary scene is shown, which was responsible for the founding of the Order of the Garter. King Edward III. has the garter of his beloved Catherine Grandison canceled, she had lost, and it will now call his own. 1910 Taylor was appointed Member of the Royal Academy, where he had issued a total of 49 paintings, and became the Honorary Secretary, which was founded by Thomas Cooper Gotch 1887 Royal British Colonial Society of Artists appointed. During the First World War, the fate hit him hard because his two sons were killed. On 20 December 1925, the artist died of acute bronchitis and was buried in the churchyard of St. Mary's in Kensal Green.
Tayler was a remarkably good cricketer since his youth. After he had become a well-known artist, he was accepted into the Artists Cricket Club and played in the regularly discharged games between visual artists and writers against figures such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest William Hornung, PG Wodehouse and JM Barrie. Early on Tayler had begun to paint in the open air style cricket matches, which was at that time a very unusual, but also made him very popular later. Tayler 1905 created a series of twelve watercolors, on which the most famous cricket players of that time are shown in photograph -like snapshots and are now in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Tayler 1906 painted a scene of the cricket match between Kent and Lancashire in Canterbury, which had been given by Kent in order. In June 2006 this achieved at an auction at which it was offered by the Kent County for sale, the record price of £ 680 000