John Eyre (British artist)

John Eyre (1847-1927) was a British artist who decorated and designed British pottery.[1][2] He also illustrated books and painted genre paintings.[1] He is known for his paintings of Royal Hospital Chelsea and its veteran residents, as well as for paintings of working people in the pottery industry.[2] He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists (c. 1877), the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (1917) and Honorary Associate of the Royal College of Art (late in life).[1][2]

Lady with a guitar by John Eyre, from the book Old Ballads.
John Eyre

R.B.A., R.I.
Born(1847-12-01)December 1, 1847
St Pancras, London
DiedSeptember 13, 1928(1928-09-13) (aged 80)
Stoke-on-Trent
NationalityBritish
StyleGenre painting

Baptized in 1850 at Stoke-on-Trent, Eyre grew up in an artist's family.[1][2] His father was a decorative artist in Staffordshire Potteries.[1][2] Eyre got his education, studying art at South Kensington.[1][2] Initially, he followed his father into the pottery trade, designing and decorating pottery.[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]

  • Portrait of Amy Louisa Eyre 1879-1949
  • Three Potters at their wheels
  • Potters with candlesticks on a table
  • Loading the kiln
  • Ely Cathedral, under the lantern
  • Chelsea Pensioners feeding birds
  • The Great Hall for the Royal Hospital at Chelsea
  • The Great Hall for the Royal Hospital at Chelsea
  • Wheatstacks
  • File:The Old Lee Farm JOHN EYRE, R.B.A., R.I.png
  • Faience plaque with Female Figure
  • Faience commemorative plaque for Bernard Palissy
  • Autumn
  • Ceramic design for Mintons or Doulton of Lambeth, c. 1880s-1890s.

Illustrated

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.[10]

See also

References
  1. "EYRE, John". suffolkartists.co.uk.
  2. "JOHN EYRE, R.B.A., R.I., (BRITISH, 1850-1927) Three Potters at their wheels; and Inside the Potteries". Christies' auction house. The Sunday Sale - Property from the Collection of the Late J.S.Goddard, removed from Camp Hill, Baldwin Estate, Staffordshire
  3. Dickens, Charles. Pickwick Papers. Illustrations by John Eyre. London: Collins.
  4. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson. In Memoriam A.H.H. Illustrations by John Eyre. London: E. Nister.
  5. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The seaside and fireside. Illustrations by John Eyre. London: E. Nister.
  6. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Voices of the night. Illustrations by John Eyre. London: E. Nister.
  7. Walton, Izaak; Cotton, Charles. The Compleat Angler. Illustrations by John Eyre. London: Collins' Clear-Type Press.
  8. Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle; and, Christmas Eve. Illustrations by John Eyre. London: E. Nister.
  9. Old Ballads. Illustrations by John Eyre. London: E. Nister. 1906.CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. Manwell, M. B. Carol Adair. Illustrations by John Eyre. London: E. Nister.
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