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E. A. (Ernest Archibald) Taylor
1874–1952
A Scottish artist and designer whose career moved easily between painting, etching, stained glass, and furniture, he was part of the creative world around the Glasgow Style. His life and work also intertwined with fellow artist Jessie M. King, with whom he later taught and worked in France and Scotland.
1 Audiobook
The development of British landscape painting in water-colours
by A. J. (Alexander Joseph) Finberg, E. A. (Ernest Archibald) Taylor
About the author
Born in Greenock in 1874, Ernest Archibald Taylor first trained as a draughtsman in the Clyde shipbuilding industry before studying at the Glasgow School of Art. He went on to build a varied career as an oil painter, watercolourist, etcher, and designer of furniture, interiors, and stained glass.
In the early 1900s he worked with the Glasgow firm Wylie & Lochhead, where his furniture designs brought him attention. He married the artist and illustrator Jessie M. King in 1908, and the two later lived in Salford and Paris, where they established the decorative arts school Atelier Shealing.
After returning to Scotland, Taylor settled in Kirkcudbright, where he continued painting and exhibiting. Sources consistently place his death in November 1951, though some later references list 1952, so that later date should be treated with caution.