Sidney Meteyard
Sidney Harold Meteyard RBSA (1868 – 4 April 1947) was an English art teacher, painter and stained-glass designer. A member of the Birmingham Group, he worked in a late Pre-Raphaelite style heavily influenced by Edward Burne-Jones and the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Life and career
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Meteyard was born in Stourbridge and studied under Edward R. Taylor at the Birmingham School of Art, where he was to teach for 45 years from 1886.[1] He exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy from 1900 to 1918, was elected an Associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in 1902 and made a full member in 1908.[2] He was later their Honorary Secretary.[3]
A friend of William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, Meteyard worked across a wide variety of media from his studio in Livery Street near Snow Hill station.[4] In 1890 he was one of the pupils at the School of Art to paint a set of murals for Birmingham Town Hall[5] and he later produced works in stained glass, enamel and tempera, and illustrated a number of books including a notable edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Golden Legend".[6] He also illustrated the Roll of Honour, in Birmingham's Hall of Memory.[3]
Meteyard was instrumental in facilitating the donation of Elford Hall to the city of Birmingham.[3]
His first marriage was to Lizzie Sarah Wilkes Fairfax Muckley (d. 9 November 1939) by special licence in June 1892. He then married jeweller Kate Eadie,[7] a Birmingham School of art student[7] and later fellow RBSA associate,[8] who was also his model.[7]
He suffered with poor eyesight late in life and was blind for his final year.[3] He died on 4 April 1947 at Malt House, Cookhill, Worcestershire[3] and was buried on 11 April at Brandwood End Cemetery, Birmingham, after a service at St Paul's Church, Cookhill.[3]
References
- ^ Ripley, Paul. "Sidney Harold Meteyard 1868 -1947". Victorian Art in Britain. Archived from the original on 9 May 2008. Retrieved 22 May 2008.
- ^ "Pelleas and Melisande by SIDNEY METEYARD". Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries. Retrieved 22 May 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f "Obituary (Sidney Harold Meteyard)". The Birmingham Post. 7 April 1947.
- ^ "Psyche at Cupid's Gate; But trembling midst her hope she took her way unto a little door midmost the wall by SIDNEY METEYARD". Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries. Retrieved 22 May 2008.
- ^ Christian, John; Stevens, Mary Anne, eds. (1989). "Sidney Harold Meteyard". The Last Romantics: The Romantic Tradition in British Art - Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer. London: Lund Humphries in association with Barbican Art Gallery. ISBN 0-85331-552-3.
- ^ Speel, Bob. "Sidney Harold Meteyard (1868-1947)". Victorian Art in England. Retrieved 22 May 2008.
- ^ a b c "An Arts and Crafts citrine necklace by Kate Eadie Unmarked". Bonhams. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ^ "Miss Kate M. Eadie". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 29 January 2013.