Background
Meteyard was born in Stourbridge and studied under Edward R. Taylor at the Birmingham School of Art, where he was to teach for 45 years from 1886.
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Sidney Meteyard
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Career
He was later their Honorary Secretary. In 1890 he was one of the pupils at the School of Art to paint a set of murals for Birmingham Town Hall and he later produced works in stained glass, enamel and tempera, and illustrated a number of books including a notable edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"s "The Golden Legend". He also illustrated the Roll of Honour, in Birmingham"s Hall of Memory.
Meteyard was instrumental in facilitating the donation of Elford Hall to the city of Birmingham.
He suffered with poor eyesight late in life and was blind for his final year. He died on 4 April 1947 at Malt House, Cookhill, Worcestershire and was buried on 11 April at Brandwood End Cemetery, Birmingham, after a service at Street Paul"s Church, Cookhill.
Membership
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.
