| John Eyre | |
| Honorific Suffix: | R.B.A., R.I. |
| Birth Date: | 1 December 1847 |
| Birth Place: | St Pancras, London |
| Baptised: | 11 September 1850, Stoke-on-Trent |
| Death Place: | Stoke-on-Trent |
| Nationality: | British |
| Style: | Genre painting |
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]
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]
