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

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methods of the Newlyn School. He studied at Heatherley's School of Art,

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and with avant-garde painters in Paris. He was educated at

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Early years with the Newlyn School

He is most known for his twelve-year involvement with the

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School of painting. The Newlyn School was spawned after many international artists followed the

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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

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. 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,

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and Elizabeth Armstrong. On arrival in Newlyn, he lived in lodgings in Henry & Elizabeth Maddern's Belle Vue House with Forbes and Blandford Fletcher.

The London era

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, '' The Ceremony of the Garter'', depicting the famous late

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scene at

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in which the fallen garter of

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is picked up by King

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. This event circa 1348 led to Edward III founding the

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. 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.From the official website of the Society of Vintners Tayler was an avid

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er, and in 1905 produced a set of twelve watercolours of famous and mostly royal cricket players. Lord Leverhulme used the series to produce lithographs and advertise his

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soap products. The promotion proved popular, and the

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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.Auction feat for cricket painting

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References

Bibliography

* Cooper, John, ''A Visitor's Guide to the

'', * ''English Literary Magazine'', Volume XXXV (1906) *

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, London * Strandberg Art Gallery

External links

Albert Chevallier Tayler at artcyclopedia.com
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