[1][2][3][4][5] He certainly received his first artistic instructions from his father, but his aunt, Anna Katharina Majer, also taught the young and talented Meyer, particularly in the art of etching.

Jeremiah Meyer quickly came to St Martin's Lane Academy to study drawing and most likely learned miniature painting from Gervase Spencer.

[4] Meyer's background as an enamel painter contrasted with the training of contemporary English miniaturists such as Samuel Finney and Gervase Spencer.

In 1761 he was awarded a gold medal prize of £20 by the Society of Artists for a portrait of the king in profile, drawn from memory, engravings from this by James MacArdell and others were very popular.

[3] In the same year the king gave Charlotte a miniature of himself by Meyer, set in an oval of diamonds within a pearl bracelet, as an engagement present.

In 1763 he married Barbara Marsden, an artist from childhood, and lived for many years at various addresses in central London, including 13 and 9 Tavistock Row in Covent Garden with a view of the market place.

The adjacent road leading from Kew Green to the River Thames, now 'Ferry Lane', was known as 'Meyer's Alley' for over a century after Meyer's death.

[13][4] A mural tablet to his memory, with a medallion portrait and some eulogistic verses by Hayley, is inside the north aisle of the church.