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Sidney Harold Meteyard RBSA (1868 – 4 April 1947) was an English art teacher, painter and stained-glass designer. A member of the Birmingham Group, he worked in a late Pre-Raphaelite style heavily influenced by Edward Burne-Jones and the Arts and Crafts Movement. ==Life and career== Meteyard was born in Stourbridge and studied under Edward R. Taylor at the Birmingham School of Art, where he was to teach for 45 years from 1886. He exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy from 1900 to 1918, was elected an Associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in 1902 and made a full member in 1908.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pelleas and Melisande by SIDNEY METEYARD )〕 He was later their Honorary Secretary. A friend of William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, Meteyard worked across a wide variety of media from his studio in Livery Street near Snow Hill Station.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Psyche at Cupid's Gate; But trembling midst her hope she took her way unto a little door midmost the wall by SIDNEY METEYARD )〕 In 1890 he was one of the pupils at the School of Art to paint a set of murals for Birmingham Town Hall and he later produced works in stained glass, enamel and tempera, and illustrated a number of books including a notable edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Golden Legend". He also illustrated the Roll of Honour, in Birmingham's Hall of Memory.〔 Meteyard was instrumental in facilitating the donation of Elford Hall to the city of Birmingham.〔 He married jeweller Kate Eadie,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An Arts and Crafts citrine necklace by Kate Eadie Unmarked, )〕 a Birmingham School of art student〔 and later fellow RBSA associate, who was also his model.〔 He suffered with poor eyesight late in life and was blind for his final year.〔 He died on 4 April 1947 at Malt House, Cookhill, Worcestershire〔 and was buried on 11 April at Brandwood End Cemetery, Birmingham, after a service at St Paul's Church, Cookhill.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sidney Meteyard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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