John Eyre (British artist)

[1][2] He worked for Mintons, and progressed to become an art director at Doulton of Lambeth.

[1][2] He exhibited artwork at the Royal Academy in 1877, Burlington House, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Paris Salon, and the Ipswich Art Society.

[1][2] In addition to his ceramic artwork and paintings, John Eyre illustrated classic books, including the Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens,[3] In Memoriam A.H.H.

by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson,[4] The seaside and fireside and Voices of the night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,[5][6] the Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton,[7] Rip Van Winkle and Christmas Eve by Washington Irving.

[8] He also illustrated Old Ballads, a book of folk music published about 1907,[9] and Carol Adair by M. B Manwell.