Ernest Yarrow Jones

Jones was born in Liverpool on 13 July 1872 to Edward Jones, a wholesale tea merchant, and Elizabeth Jane Jones.^[4][2][5] He grew up in Liverpool and North Wales, at Groudd, Cerrigydrudion, alongside his siblings Helena Jones, Arthur Edward Jones, and Osman Wynne Jones.^[6][7]

Educated at Parkfield School, Liverpool and Liverpool College Upper School, he matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford on 26 October 1891 to study law.^[2] He was later a member of Inner Temple in London.^[5]

After qualifying as a barrister, Jones turned to a career in painting and sculpture.^[8] He studied art at the Westminster School of Art and at South Kensington Art School in England, and later at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi in Paris.^[2][1][9]

Jones developed a love of nature study in childhood which later informed his artistic focus on animals and landscapes.^[10] His artistic career began around 1899, his works spanning a range of artistic media, including oil painting, watercolour painting, sculpture, and decorative book art.^[11][2] Strongly influenced by Impressionism, Jones sought to "record the effect of light with extreme accuracy" while not losing the form of the object.^[12]

His illustrative work includes The Childhood of Animals (1912) and Apple of Beauty and Discord (1920).^[13][14]

Jones exhibited in Paris from around 1905, subsequently showing his work at a number of Salons including the Beaux-Arts, the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants.^[15][2]

In England he exhibited at the Royal Academy and the W.A.G. and staged one-man shows at the Leicester Galleries, the Arlington Gallery and the Macrae Gallery.^{[2][16][17][18]}

He signed his works “E. Yarrow Jones” in block letters.^[2]