Career
Artists Meo modelled for included Simeon Solomon, William Blake Richmond, Lord Leighton, George Heming Mason, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown and Edward Burne-Jones. Meo painted moasics in the dome of Debenham House to a design by Halsey Ricardo, the architect of the house. Meo led a team of mosaicists in the installation of designs by Scottish artist/architect Robert Weir Schultz at Saint Andrew"s chapel in Westminster Cathedral.
Carrick was writing a biography of Meo at the time of his death.
Four paintings by Meo have been identified by the Public Catalogue Foundation as in public ownership in the United Kingdom. Three (Tooley"s Farm, Looking towards London from the Heath and Wyldes Farm) are part of the collection of Camden Council, and Arundel Castle, West Sussex, Looking from the Back of the Railway Station is part of Eastbourne"s Towner Gallery.
