Biography
Fred Mayor (b. Winksley, Yorkshire, UK 1866 - d. 1916) studied at the Academie Julian in Paris where he met his lifelong friends Philip Wilson Steer and Walter Richard Sickert. He also shared a studio with Frank Brangwyn in Chiswick, LOndon. He became a founder member of the Staithes Group of artists in North Yorkshire in 1901. He eloped to live in Montreuil-sur-Mer with Hannah Hoyland, a fellow Staithes artist, in 1902, the year she was elected a member of the Staithes Art Club. Mayor exhibited at the Salon, Paris, Baillie Gallery, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Goupil Gallery, Walker Gallery Liverpool, Leicester Gallerirs, the London Salon, Manchester City Art Gallery, New English Art Club, Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Scottish Academy and Yorkshire Union of Artists. He has works in public collections in Birmingham, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Manchester, Sheffield, Whitby, the Tate Britain, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Imperial War Museum and the UK Government and New Zealand National Art Collections.
