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]

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]

Gallery

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

• John Eyre (painter) Australian painter

References

External links

• Floral painted vases by John Eyre.
• Floral vases closeup.
• Vases with Classical Greek motif, by John Eyre.
• Greek vases closeup.