Matthew Taylor (sculptor)

Matthew Taylor
Self-portrait of Taylor as a youth on the Angler's Tomb, Woodhouse Cemetery
Born	(1837-02-02)2 February 1837 Leeds
Died	9 July 1889(1889-07-09) (aged 52) St Peter's Cottage, Arthington
Resting place	Arthington churchyard
Nationality	British
Notable work	Angler's Tomb, 1873 Statues, Leeds Sch. Board, 1881
Style	Aesthetic movement Romanticism Neoclassicism
Spouse	Elizabeth Keith (1842–1934)
Memorial(s)	Sculpted gravestone in Arthington churchyard

Matthew Taylor (Leeds 2 February 1837– Arthington 9 July 1889) (fl. 1861–1889) was a sculptor based in Leeds and Arthington, West Yorkshire, England. He was apprenticed to Catherine Mawer, and was known in his day for bust, medallion and relief portraits, and statues. He exhibited some of these in Leeds Art Gallery during the last decade of his life. Between 1861 and 1876 he worked in partnership with Benjamin Burstall (1835–1876); they executed the sculpture on the Town Hall at Bolton in Greater Manchester. After Taylor's death, in 1905 his work received further recognition when Reverend W.T. Adey praised his carving on William Taylor's gravestone at Woodhouse Cemetery, Leeds, and named it the "Angler's Tomb." That work is now a listed monument. Taylor was a member of the Mawer Group, which included the above-mentioned sculptors, plus Robert Mawer, Charles Mawer, Benjamin Payler and William Ingle.