TAYLOR, Leonard Campbell

1874 - 1969

Leonard Campbell Taylor was born at Oxford on 12 December 1874, son of Dr James Taylor (1833-1 August 1900), organist at New College, Oxford 1865–1900, and his wife Eliza Ann née Cheetham, who married in 1865. In 1881, Leonard was a 6-year-old scholar, living at Threlfall, Oxford St Giles, Oxfordshire with his parents, 47-year-old James and 41-year-old Eliza and five siblings, Leila C. 13, May C. 10, Stewart C. 8, Reginald C. 2 and newly born Colin C., the C in each case is for Campbell. Leonard was educated at the Dragon School, a preparatory school at Oxford and at Boyne House, Cheltenham and then studied at Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford and at the Royal Academy Schools from 29 January 1895 until January 1900, before moving on to the St John's Wood School of Art, London in 1905. During the First World War, Leonard was an official war artist, serving with the Surrey Volunteer Regiment 1916-1917 and in 1918 became a lieutenant with the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. In 1919 he painted 'Herculaneum Dock', a depiction of ships in dazzle camouflage at Liverpool's docks, rendered in accurate detail. A painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1899, being elected an Associate on 27 April 1922 and a Member on 10 November 1931, and in 1907 painted 'The Rehearsal' which is now in the Tate Gallery. His pictures are highly finished interiors with figures, often with a period flavour and he has also painted still life and portraits including Queen Mary. His works are held by many public bodies, and he has exhibited widely. He married firstly at Hartley Wintney, Hampshire in 1920, Katherine Elizabeth Craig (c1872-18 January 1933), and they had two children and secondly at Hampstead Registry Office on 1 June 1935 one of his former pupils at the Royal Academy Schools, 26-year-old Miss Brenda Moore. They lived at Eastgate Hall, Felsham, Suffolk for a considerable time but Leonard Campbell Taylor was of Pampisford Mill, Cambridgeshire when he died in a Cambridge Hospital on 1 July 1969.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 61 Broadhurst Gardens, Northwest London
1899 831 The Sentinal
         1536 The Last to Leave - etching
1900 75 Portrait of a Lady
         916 Triumph
         938 The Bargain
1901 145 John Waite, Esq.
         655 Humphrey Roberts, Esq.
1902 508 The Patient
         559 The Rivals
         566 The Juggler
from c/o Max O. Ford, Esq. 62 Acacia Road, Northwest London
1904 150 Old King Cole
from Three Gables, Hindhead, Surrey
1905 120 The Canal: Sunset
         157 Una and the Red Cross Knight
         550 Chess
1906 612 Patience
         620 Battledore
1907 497 The Rehearsal
         501 The Young Knight
         802 Place St Etienne, Meaux
1908 518 Practice for the Ballet in 1830
from Bramshott, Ewhurst, Surrey
1909 322 Bed-time
1910 116 The Lady of the Castle
         393 Portrait Group
         620 Bubbles
1911 394 Katrine and Griselda, daughters of F. Gordon Brown, Esq.
         702 In the Studio
1912 418 The Song
1913 362 Summer Afternoon
         757 Anne and Jane
1914 430 Desmond
1917 86 The Revel
         107 The Immortals
         280 Interior
1918 185 Interior, walnut and delft
         347 Capitaine Commandant van Egeren
         414 Interior, summer morning
1920 330 Desmong Craig
         610 M. Ketels
from Old Bank House, Odiham, Basingstoke
1921 371 Interior, with Figures
1922 475 The Blue Dress
1923 249 Interior at Patsborought Manor
         489 Priscilla
1924 163 The Drawing Room
         175 The Corridor
         427 The Game
         483 Interior, the old Manor House, Upton Grey
from 49 Cambridge Street, West London
1925 442 In the Town Hall, Liverpool
         583 E.P. Roydon, Esq., J.P.
from 63 Belsize Park, Northwest London
1926 3 The Chess Players
         346 Jane
         447 The State Dining-room
1927 30 The Japanese Room
         212 Villanueva del Segura
         245 Mountains in Murcia
         503 In the Sierra Verdelena
1928 63 The Nurse
         536 Malvina
         564 The Sunlit Drawing-room
         588 The White Lady
1929 128 Memories
         183 The Anteroom
         198 Her Majesty the Queen
         346 Thomas J. Storey, K.B.E.
1930 49 Interior at Holland Park Road
         53 Woman Spinning
         483 Miss Joy Lyon
1931 78 Afternoon
         126 The hostess of 'The White Horse'
         346 Andrew Scott, Esq.
         382 Arabella
from 1 Wychcombe Studios, England's Lane, Northwest London
1932 3 Romsey Abbey
         54 The Sampler
         62 Arabella
         161 Guy Kartright
         276 Interior at Park Close
         457 Still Life
1934 31 At Forty-Seven Grosvenor Square
         98 Wedding at Southwark Cathedral
         501 Mafalda
1935 19 The Silver Wedding Day
         100 Jenny of Houghton-le-Spring
1936 52 The Harpist
         617 Alexander F. Luttrell, Esq.
1937 3 The Broken Thread
1938 177 The Coronation of His Majesty King George VI
1939 11 The Studio
         157 The Rt.Hon. Lord Justice Clauson
         348 Mrs Wickham Steed
from Copse Hill Cottage, Ewhurst, Surrey
1942 35 Young Woman Reading
1945 3 Woman in a White Dress
         205 The Rt.Hon. The Lord Macmillan, G.C.V.O., Ll.D.
         547 The White Drawing-room
         561 The Guards' Chapel, Wellington Barracks
1946 359 A Noel Mobbs, Esq., O.B.E., High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire
1947 15 ?
         109 The Very Rev. Dean Henderson
         195 Sir Thomas Baxterm chairman of the Milk Marketing Board
from Eastgate Hall, Felsham, Bury St Edmund’s, Suffolk
1949 421 Sir Frederick Wells, Bt. Lord Mayor of London 1947-48
540 Gloucester Cathedral
545 September Flowers
1950 41 The Hall
166 The Patchwork Quilt
1951 58 About 1830
640 The Cottage Window
1952 31 The Gallery
262 Models: living and laying
319 Winter in the Mountains of Murcia
1953 76 Christmas Afternoon
536 Summer Flowers
544 June
1954 239 The Little Workroom
262 The Little Parlour
1955 62 The First Ball Dress
259 Salon de la Paix, Versailles
598 Succulents
1956 7 The Blue Room
580 Echeveria
from 92 Whiting Street, Bury St Edmund's, Suffolk
1957 9 Summer Afternoon, 1956
1958 508 Still Life
657 Plant Group
681 Prelude to the Ball
691 Intermezzo
from Pampisford Mill, Cambridge
1959 49 Still Life
1960 181 Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds
         277 Midsummer, Saxham Hall
         628 The Little White Room
         674 Evening Sun
         699 Winter
1961 45 Bacchus and Helleborus
1962 425 Canal at Twilight
         436 Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds No. 2
         507 Gloxinia
1963 627 The White Room

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Works by This Artist