Barbara Penson Austin Taylor (1891–1951) was a British sculptor.

Biography

Taylor was born in

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, a suburb of

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, and studied in London at the

Westminster School of Art The Westminster School of Art was an art school in Westminster, London. History The Westminster School of Art was located at 18 Tufton Street, Deans Yard, Westminster, and was part of the old Royal Architectural Museum. H. M. Bateman describ ...

, at the

Grosvenor School of Modern Art The Grosvenor School of Modern Art was a private British art school and, in its shortened form ("Grosvenor School"), the name of a brief British-Australian art movement. It was founded in 1925 by the Scottish wood engraver Iain Macnab in his ...

and then at the British School in Rome. After studying stone carving techniques in the workshop of a monumental mason, Taylor established a studio in London, being based in Chelsea for a long period. She produced portrait heads, busts and figures in bronze, stone and plaster. Until a few years before her death, Taylor was a regular exhibitor with the

Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purp ...

in London and also with the

London Group The London Group is a society based in London, England, created to offer additional exhibiting opportunities to artists besides the Royal Academy of Arts. Formed in 1913, it is one of the oldest artist-led organisations in the world. It was form ...

and the

Society of Women Artists The Society of Women Artists (SWA) is a British art body dedicated to celebrating and promoting fine art created by women. It was founded as the Society of Female Artists (SFA) in about 1855, offering women artists the opportunity to exhibit and ...

Manchester City Art Gallery Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre. The main gallery premises were built for a learned society in 1823 and today its collection occupies three c ...

holds examples of her work.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Barbara Austin 1891 births 1951 deaths 20th-century English women artists Alumni of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art Alumni of the Westminster School of Art Artists from Liverpool English women sculptors