JONES, SAMUEL MAURICE (1853 - 1932), artist

Name: Samuel Maurice Jones
Date of birth: 1853
Date of death: 1932
Parent: John Jones
Gender: Male
Occupation: artist
Area of activity: Art and Architecture
Author: Edward Morgan Humphreys

Born at Mochdre, Denbighshire, 1853, son of the Rev. John Jones (1820 - 1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister. He was educated at Caernarvon, Liverpool, and London; in London he met Ruskin and Holman Hunt and had his work criticized by them. Deciding to devote himself to painting, he settled at Caernarvon as a landscape painter, working mainly in water-colour, his favourite fields being the country around Caernarvon and the Conway Valley. He was at his best in depicting mountain scenery. As an illustrator he did a good deal of work for Cymru (O.M.E.) and for the volumes in 'Cyfres y Fil.'

He was elected an Associate of the Royal Cambrian Academy in 1882 and became an Academician (R.C.A.) in 1921. He was a regular exhibitor at the Academy's annual exhibition in Conway. He wrote some articles for Cymru.

n his later years he lived at Llandudno, where he died 30 December 1932. He was three times married and had one son.

Author

Published date: 1959

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