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

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. [cite web|url=http://www.victorianartinbritain.co.uk/biog/meteyard.htm|title=Sidney Harold Meteyard 1868 -1947|accessdate=2008-05-22|last=Ripley|first=Paul|work=Victorian Art in Britain] 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. [cite web|url=http://www.leicestergalleries.com/art-and-antiques/detail/13402|title=Pelleas and Melisande by SIDNEY METEYARD|accessdate=2008-05-22|publisher=Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries]

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. [cite web|url=http://www.leicestergalleries.com/art-and-antiques/detail/14044|title=Psyche at Cupid's Gate; But trembling midst her hope she took her way unto a little door midmost the wall by SIDNEY METEYARD|accessdate=2008-05-22|publisher=Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries] In 1890 he was one of the pupils at the School of Art to paint a set of murals for Birmingham Town Hall [cite book|editor=Christian, John; Stevens, Mary Anne|title=The Last Romantics: The Romantic Tradition in British Art - Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer|year=1989|publisher=Lund Humphries in association with Barbican Art Gallery|location=London|isbn=0853315523|pages=|chapter=Sidney Harold Meteyard] 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". [cite web|url=http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/paint/meteyard.htm|title=Sidney Harold Meteyard (1868-1947)|accessdate=2008-05-22|last=Speel|first=Bob|work=Victorian Art in England ]

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.

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