Samuel Maurice Jones Papers

Papers, 1866-1939, of the artist Samuel Maurice Jones (1853-1932), including notebooks, letters, lectures and addresses, family genealogical data, newspaper cuttings and other miscellaneous papers; together with letters written to his father, the Rev. John Jones (1820-1886), and a notebook belonging to his brother, John Maurice Jones (1845-1869).

Samuel Maurice Jones (1853-1932) was a landscape painter, who exhibited in many of the major art galleries, and was an early product of public art education in Wales.
He was born at Mochdre in Denbighshire, the fourth child of the Rev. John Jones, Calvinistic Methodist minister, and Hannah, his wife. He trained under John Cambrian Rowland at the Caernarfon School of Art, before proceeding to London, where he studied from 1870 to 1873 under William Collingwood, Associate of the Society of Painters in Watercolours. He was a founding member of the Royal Cambrian Academy, and, in 1882, he became the first Welsh-born Academician to be granted an Associate Membership. He was prominent in launching a campaign in the Welsh language on behalf of visual culture, a campaign which remained close to his heart throughout his life.
Samuel Maurice Jones died in Llandudno in 1932.

Arranged at NLW in three series: notebooks, 1870-1931; letters, 1887-1933; lectures and addresses, 1907-1930; and five files: genealogical papers, 1892-1939; newspaper cuttings, 1881-1933; miscellaneous papers, 1891-1932; letters to the Rev. John Jones, 1866-1869; and notebook of J. M. Jones, 1868-1869.

Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to sign the 'Modern papers - data protection' form.

Donated by Mr J. Maurice Jones, Birkenhead, son of Samuel Maurice Jones, May 1967.; 0200304778

Samuel Maurice Jones (1853-1932) was a landscape painter, who exhibited in many of the major art galleries, and was an early product of public art education in Wales.
He was born at Mochdre in Denbighshire, the fourth child of the Rev. John Jones, Calvinistic Methodist minister, and Hannah, his wife. He trained under John Cambrian Rowland at the Caernarfon School of Art, before proceeding to London, where he studied from 1870 to 1873 under William Collingwood, Associate of the Society of Painters in Watercolours. He was a founding member of the Royal Cambrian Academy, and, in 1882, he became the first Welsh-born Academician to be granted an Associate Membership. He was prominent in launching a campaign in the Welsh language on behalf of visual culture, a campaign which remained close to his heart throughout his life.
Samuel Maurice Jones died in Llandudno in 1932.

The fonds includes papers dated after Samuel Maurice Jones's death, including a newspaper cutting of his obituary, a letter of condolence to J. Maurice Jones on the death of his father, and an in memoriam card of the Rev. Ezra Jones, Samuel Maurice Jones's brother.

A hard copy of the list is available at NLW.

April 2003.

Compiled by Rhiannon Michaelson-Yeates.

The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Grant M. Waters, Dictionary of British Artists working 1900-1950 (Eastbourne Fine Art, 1975) and Peter Lord, The Betws-y-coed Artists' Colony 1844-1914 (The National Library of Wales, 1998).

Usual copyright laws apply.

Action: All papers donated to NLW have been retained..

No further papers expected.

Sketch books and photographs have been transferred to NLW, Special Collections DV100-104.

Published