Leonard Campbell Taylor

Leonard Campbell Taylor studied at Royal College of Art, Dragon School and Cheltenham College. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is visual arts. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Work by Leonard Campbell Taylor is recorded in the collections of Tate, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery, National Railway Museum and Lady Lever Art Gallery.

• Name — Leonard Campbell Taylor • Born — 12 December 1874 • Birthplace — Oxford, England • Died — 1 July 1969 • Education — * Royal Academy School • Cheltenham College • Ruskin School • St John's Wood Art School • Known for — Painting

• Illustration — Herculaneum Dock, Liverpool Taylor was born on 12 December 1874 in Oxford, England. He was the son of James Taylor, organist at New College, Oxford and for the University of Oxford. He studied at the Dragon School preparatory school when it was still located in Crick Road under its first headmaster, Rev. A. E. Clark. He was the second of four brothers at the school, and designed a front cover for the school magazine, The Draconian, in 1900. From 1895 to 1900, he was a student as the Royal Academy School. He went on to study at Cheltenham College with a scholarship and then the Ruskin School in Oxford, before moving on to the St John's Wood Art School, in London in 1905. During the First World War, he served as an official war artist. He served with the Surrey Volunteer Regiment from 1916 to 1917; he became a lieutenant with the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in 1918. His war art is primarily "documentary" in nature and painstakingly accurate. In 1919, he painted Herculaneum Dock, a depiction of ships in dazzle camouflage at Liverpool's docks, rendered in accurate detail. Taylor exhibited primarily in London and Paris, and lived in Suffolk. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1899, and became a full member in 1931.