Sidney Harold Meteyard RBSA (2 November 1868 – 4 April 1947) was an

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and

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designer. A member of the Birmingham Group, he worked in a late

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style heavily influenced by

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and the

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Life and career

Meteyard was born in

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, his father was Oswald George Meatyard (d. 4 May 1906) and mother Emma Maria Meatyard, née Rutland (1838–1925). He studied under Edward R. Taylor at the

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, where he was to later teach for 45 years himself from 1886. He exhibited at the

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and the

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from 1900 to 1918, was elected an Associate of the

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in 1902 and made a full member in 1908. He was later their Honorary Secretary. A friend of

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and

, Meteyard worked across a wide variety of media from his studio in Livery Street near Snow Hill station. In 1890 he was one of the pupils at the School of Art to paint a set of murals for

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and he later produced works in

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, enamel and

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, and illustrated a number of books including a notable edition of

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's ''The Golden Legend''. He also illustrated the Roll of Honour, in Birmingham's Hall of Memory. In 1907 he made a large single-figure enamel of ''The Angel of the Resurrection'' in memory of his father, for Holy Trinity Church,

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. Meteyard was instrumental in facilitating the donation of Elford Hall to the city of Birmingham. His first marriage was to Lizzie Sarah Wilkes Fairfax Muckley (d. 9 November 1939) by special licence on 16 April 1892.'Births, Marriages, Deaths: Marriages', ''

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'', 30 April 1892, p. 5. He then married jeweller Kate Eadie, a Birmingham School of art student and later fellow RBSA associate, who was also his model. He suffered with poor eyesight late in life and was blind for his final year. He died on 4 April 1947 at Malt House, Cookhill, Worcestershire and was buried on 11 April at Brandwood End Cemetery, Birmingham, after a service at St Paul's Church, Cookhill.

Location of work

* Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery * St. Paul’s Church, Cookhill *

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, London * Holy Trinity Church,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Meteyard, Sidney 1868 births 1947 deaths English artists Arts and Crafts movement artists People from Stourbridge Artists from Birmingham, West Midlands Members and Associates of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Alumni of the Birmingham School of Art Academics of the Birmingham School of Art