Albert Chevallier Tayler was an important English artist who specialized in portrait and genre painting, but was also involved in the plein-aire* methods of the Newlyn School.* He was a member of the British Royal Academy of Painters, and he studied at Heatherley's School of Art, Royal Academy Schools and with avant-garde painters in Paris. He was educated at Bloxham School in Oxfordshire.

He is most known for his twelve year involvement with the Newlyn School* of painting. The Newlyn school was spawned after many international artists followed the En plein air school in France, whereby artists would leave Paris and take up rural life in small colonies of kindred painters. Thence, as artists returned from France to their own c...