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Edward Richard Taylor
Taylor taught at the
Paintings by E R Taylor
(artnet.com) {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Edward Richard 1838 births 1911 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters 20th-century English painters English watercolourists Landscape artists Members and Associates of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Art pottery 19th-century English male artists 20th-century English male artists
Edward Richard Taylor RBSA
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists or RBSA is an art society, based in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England, where it owns and operates an art gallery, the RBSA Gallery, on Brook Street, just off St Paul's Square. It is both a re ...
(14 June 1838 – 11 January 1911) was an English artist and educator. He painted in both oils
An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) & lipophilic (mixes with other oils). Oils are usually flammable and surface active. Most oils are unsaturated ...
and watercolours
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to ...
. He became a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists or RBSA is an art society, based in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England, where it owns and operates an art gallery, the RBSA Gallery, on Brook Street, just off St Paul's Square. It is both a re ...
in 1879.
Biography
Taylor taught at the Lincoln School of Art
The Lincoln College of Art was an educational institution devoted to the arts, based in the English city of Lincoln with its origins in the mid-nineteenth century. The institution changed shape and name numerous times over its history before bein ...
, where amongst his pupils were William Logsdail
William Logsdail (25 May 1859 – 3 September 1944) was a prolific English landscape, portrait, and genre painter. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Grosvenor Gallery, the New Gallery (London), and othe ...
and Frank Bramley
Frank Bramley RA (6 May 1857 – 9 August 1915) was an English post-impressionist genre painter of the Newlyn School.
Personal life
Bramley was born in Sibsey, near Boston, in Lincolnshire to Charles Bramley from Fiskerton also in Lincoln ...
, and became influential in the Arts and Crafts movement as the first headmaster at the Birmingham Municipal School of Arts and Crafts from 1877–1903. In December 1898, he founded Ruskin Pottery
The Ruskin Pottery was an English art pottery studio founded in 1898 by Edward R. Taylor, the first principal of both the Lincoln School of Art and the Birmingham School of Art, to be run by his son, William Howson Taylor, formerly a student t ...
at Smethwick
Smethwick () is an industrial town in Sandwell, West Midlands, England. It lies west of Birmingham city centre. Historically it was in Staffordshire.
In 2019, the ward of Smethwick had an estimated population of 15,246, while the wider bu ...
, Staffordshire. Since 2003, the work of this artist has been auctioned with one painting, ''The Avon from Bideford'', sold at Andrew Hartley Fine Arts in 2012 for a record price.
His son William Howson Taylor (1876–1935) took over Ruskin Pottery after the death of his father in 1912.
See also
* Birmingham GroupNotes
Further reading
*Atterbury, Paul & Henson, John. ''Ruskin Pottery: Pottery of Edward Richard Taylor and William Howson Taylor, 1898-1933'' (Baxendale press, 1993).External links
Paintings by E R Taylor
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