December 20th Albert Chevalier Tayler (Death)
     
Leytonstone – born Albert Chevallier Tayler (1862 – 1925) studied at the Heatherley’s Art School, the Royal Academy Schools and The Slade School of Fine Arts where he became friends with Thomas Cooper Gotch (December 10th) and Norman Garstin (June 22nd).  Due to these friendships, he moved to Newlyn (1884) where he remained for twelve years and became a member of the Newlyn School of Artists.  He married the daughter of a surgeon to the Royal Household with whom he had two sons both of whom were tragically killed in the First World War. Tayler’s sister, Mary Beatrice Churchill Tayler (1869 – 1939) was heavily involved with the Newlyn School until her death making the link between the School and the Tayler family an unmatched 55 years.

The majority of Tayler’s paints were portraits and observations of personal lives as demonstrated by Negotiations (below left) and the heartbreakingly beautiful, Not Lost But Gone Before (below right).

   

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