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Title
Date(s)
- 1866-1939 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
0.009 cubic metres (1 box)
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
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.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Donated by Mr J. Maurice Jones, Birkenhead, son of Samuel Maurice Jones, May 1967.; 0200304778
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Action: All papers donated to NLW have been retained..
Accruals
No further papers expected.
System of arrangement
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.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to sign the 'Modern papers - data protection' form.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- Welsh
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Welsh, English
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
A hard copy of the list is available at NLW.
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Note
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.
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Rules and/or conventions used
This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) Second Edition; AACR2; and LCSH.
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Dates of creation revision deletion
April 2003.
Language(s)
- English
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Sources
Archivist's note
Compiled by Rhiannon Michaelson-Yeates.
Archivist's note
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).