Sidney Meteyard

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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.

[edit] Life and career

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]

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.[3] In 1890 he was one of the pupils at the School of Art to paint a set of murals for Birmingham Town Hall[4] 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".[5]

His best-known painting - I am half sick of shadows, said the Lady of Shalott (1913), based on the poem by Tennyson - is in the collection of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ripley, Paul. Sidney Harold Meteyard 1868 -1947. Victorian Art in Britain. Retrieved on 2008-05-22.
  2. ^ Pelleas and Melisande by SIDNEY METEYARD. Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries. Retrieved on 2008-05-22.
  3. ^ 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 on 2008-05-22.
  4. ^ (1989) "Sidney Harold Meteyard", in Christian, John; Stevens, Mary Anne: The Last Romantics: The Romantic Tradition in British Art - Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer. London: Lund Humphries in association with Barbican Art Gallery. ISBN 0853315523. 
  5. ^ Speel, Bob. Sidney Harold Meteyard (1868-1947). Victorian Art in England. Retrieved on 2008-05-22.