John Edward Taylerson
Born 1854
Died 1942 (Probable)
Active: 1881 - 1926
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, stone carver, ecclesiastical sculptor, teacher
Born in Norton, Durham and christened on 13 January 1855. He was the son of William Taylerson (born c.1828 in county Durham), a railway engine driver. John Edward and his widowed mother Margaret (born c.1827) moved to London before 1881. At this time he was working as an ecclesiastical sculptor (possibly for Thomas Earp though this is unconfirmed) and his mother was a tea dealer and provision merchant. Taylerson studied at at Faversham School of Art, South London Technical School of Art (the latter c.1882) and at Westminster School of Art. By 1881 he was working as an ecclesiastical sculptor and had established a business in Wandsworth. His most important architectural projects include: Lloyds Shipping Register, Thames House, and the majority of sculpture in wood and stone at St John's Holland Road, Kensington. Taylerson's sequence of the wise and foolish virgins in the porch and of the apostles and saints on the chancel screen are very fine. He also sculpted the group, entitled 'Succouring the Defenceless' for the War Memorial at Warlingham, Surrey. Taylerson taught modelling and wood-carving at Battersea Polytechnic.
This record includes information about Taylerson's work at St John's Holland Road, Kensington submitted by Neil Traynor. See: http://www.stjohnthebaptisthollandroad.co.uk/history/ (accessed 30 April 2018).
Works
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Miss Hilda Dederick
1919 (Presumed)
Locations
Address 31 Robertson Street East London SW | View on map
1881 (Circa)
Address Tradescant Road Lambeth London | View on map
1884 (Circa) - 1886 (Circa)
Address 90 Holland Road Lambeth London | View on map
1887 (Circa)
Address 70 Sugden Road Battersea London | View on map
1888 (Circa) - 1893 (Circa)
Address 30 Fontarabia Road Battersea London | View on map
1894 (Circa) - 1895 (Circa)
Address 22 Marney Road Lavender Hill London SW | View on map
1897 (Circa) - 1924 (Circa)
Address 41 Loxley Road Wandsworth Common London | View on map
1926 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1897
'Christmas Carol'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1884 - 1926
Exhibited 26 times, thirty-eight works in all (statuettes, reliefs, medallions, portrait busts and a war memorial)
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1892
1892
Christmas Morn (cat. no. 1343, marble relief, not for sale).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-third (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1893
1893
The Blessed Damosel (cat. no. 1233, relief, £35); Death in Love (cat. no. 1238, not for sale).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fifth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1895
1895
Evensong (cat. no. 1327, panel, illustrated on the catalogue cover).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-sixth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1896
1896
Christmas Carol (cat. no. 1166, marble low relief, £8 10s.).
Exhibited at The Seventy-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1919
1919
Institutional and Business Connections
Student at South London Technical School of Art (also Lambeth School of Art and City and Guilds of London Art School)
12 January 1882
He took five courses in Modelling (Antique & Life)
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Architect's Sculptor' employer, he was employing one servant
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor, Carver, Modeller in Marble, Stone, Wood, Ivory etc.' working on own account
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Ecclesiastical Sculptor'
Occupation given in South London Technical School of Art (City and Guilds of London Institute): Student Enrolments, 1880-2
12 January 1882
'Stone Carver'
Occupation given in London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
1886
'Sculptor'
Sources
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fifth, 1895 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1895
pp. 47-50.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-sixth, 1896 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1896
pp. 45-48.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-third, 1893 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1893
pp. 42-45.
Catalogue for the Seventy-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1919
1919
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1897
1897
Cat. No. 788, pp. 74, 110
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
2005
Class: RG 9; Piece: 3697; Folio: 77; Page: 12; GSU roll: 543174
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
RG10 piece 4913 folio 51 page 9
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
RG11 piece 655 folio 98 page 34
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
RG13 piece 457 folio 19 page 29
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN2228 RG78PN76 RD26 SD3 ED8 SN301
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: John E Taylerson
Birth Date: abt 1855
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1942
Age at Death: 87
Registration district: Hampstead
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1a
Page: 509
England, Select Births and Christening Records, 1538-1975
2014
Name: John Edward Taylorson
Gender: Male
Baptism Date: 13 Jan 1855
Baptism Place: Norton,Durham,England
Father: William Taylorson
Mother: Margaret
FHL Film Number: 91104
London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
2010
London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: p75/jn/012
Public Sculpture of the City of London Public Sculpture of Britain Volume Five
2003
p. 480
Citing this record
'John Edward Taylerson', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib1_1219317448, accessed 04 Jun 2023]
