Albert Chevallier Tayler English artist Date of Birth: 05.04.1862 Country: Great Britain

Biography of Albert Chevallier Taylor

Albert Chevallier Taylor was an English artist and one of the prominent representatives of the Newlyn School artistic colony. He was born into a lawyer's family as the seventh child. After completing secondary school, Taylor studied art at the Heatherley School of Fine Art and the School of the Royal Academy of Arts. In 1879, he received a scholarship to study at the Slade School of Fine Art. In 1881, he continued his education in Paris under the guidance of Jules-Philippe Laurens. During his time in France, Taylor was strongly influenced by Impressionism.

In 1884, the artist settled in the fishing town of Newlyn in Cornwall and joined the emerging community of painters, which included masters like Henry Scott Tuke, Thomas Cooper Gotch, and Stanhope Forbes. The artists in Newlyn painted genre scenes of fishing families' lives, as well as landscapes, using watercolors and oil paints. In 1887, Taylor exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy of Arts, and in 1891, he won a prize at the Paris Salon. From 1893, the artist gradually moved away from genre painting towards a more romantic direction.

In 1895, A. Taylor moved to London. By the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, he had become a well-known master, regularly exhibiting his works at the Society of Fine Arts and the Royal Academy of Arts. At the beginning of the 20th century, Taylor created large-scale paintings on historical themes. In 1910, he became a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. During World War I, both of the artist's sons were killed on the battlefields. He himself died from bronchitis in 1925.

In addition to his artistic pursuits, Albert Chevallier Taylor was also an excellent cricket player. He frequently played friendly matches against opponents such as Arthur Conan Doyle, J.M. Barrie, and P.G. Wodehouse, as part of teams composed of artists and writers. In 2006, one of Taylor's famous paintings depicting a cricket match between the Kent and Lancashire counties in 1906 was sold at an auction for a record sum of £680,000.