Albert Chevallier Tayler

Albert Chevallier Tayler (5 April 1862 – 20 December 1925) was an English artist who specialised in portrait and genre painting, but he was also involved in the plein air methods of the Newlyn School.

Thence, as artists returned from France to their own countries, they sought out remote locations to congregate and pursue the En plein air method.

A typical painting of this early period is A Dress Rehearsal (1888), hung in the National Museums Liverpool.

On arrival in Newlyn, he lived in lodgings in Henry & Elizabeth Maddern's Belle Vue House with Forbes and Blandford Fletcher.

By 1903 Tayler was renowned and was commissioned to paint a large panel at the Royal Exchange in London; the resultant painting of The Five Kings depicts Kings Edward III of England, David of Scotland, Peter I of Cyprus, John of France and Waldemar IV of Denmark partaking in a feast hosted by the Master of the Society of Vintners in London in 1363.

Ceremony of the Garter painted 1901. Source: Collection of C.Michael Hogan
Portrait of WG Grace , painted 1905