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British artist

Sidney Harold MeteyardRBSA (2 November 1868 – 4 April 1947) was an Englishart 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, his father was Oswald George Meatyard (d.

4 May 1906) and mother Emma Maria Meatyard, née Rutland (1838–1925). He studied under Edward R. Taylor at the Birmingham School of Art, where he was to later teach for 45 years himself from 1886.^[1] 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.^[2] He was later their Honorary Secretary.^[3]

A friend of William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, Meteyard worked across a wide variety of media from his studio in Livery St