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 Art School, London in 1905. During the First World War, 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 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, 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
1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1945, 1946, 1947
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