JONES, SAMUEL MAURICE (1853 - 1932), artist

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

• Edward Morgan Humphreys, (1882 - 1955)

Sources

• The Liverpool Daily Post, 2 January 1933
• information supplied by Mr. F. Lees, Keeper of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art
• personal knowledge

Works

• Samuel Maurice Jones, DV 104 (8vo): Art notebook and sketches, 1874
• Samuel Maurice Jones, DV 100 (8vo): Sketches, c.1890
• Samuel Maurice Jones, DV 101 (8vo): Sketches, c.1891
• Samuel Maurice Jones, DV 103 (8vo): Sketches, c.1909
• Samuel Maurice Jones, DV 102 (8vo): Sketches, 1915
• Samuel Maurice Jones, Tan y Castell, Dolwyddelan
• ArtUK: Samuel Maurice Jones, 1853–1932

Images

• Joseph Kinsley, Samuel Morris Jones
• NLW: Samuel Morris Jones
• NLW: Samuel Morris Jones
• Evan Owen, Rev. John Maurice Jones [Brother of Samuel Maurice Jones]

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20734392

Published date: 1959

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