Percy Thomas MacQuoid was born in Kensington, London, England in January 1852 and Thomas Robert Macquoid (1820–1912), a painter and illustrator. He studied at Heatherley's School of Fine Art and the Royal Academy Schools in London. He subsequently worked as a painter, illustrator, art metalworker and theatre costume designer. He was also a furniture historian. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1875 to 1887. His work was also shown at Dudley Gallery, Fine Art Society, Grosvenor Gallery, Royal institute of Oil Painters, and Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in London; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; and at Manchester City Art Gallery. He participated in 6th exhibition of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society at the New Gallery in London in 1899 at which he exhibited a corona in polished iron designed for Starkie Gardner & Co.
McQuoid was employed as an illustrator by 'The Daily Graphic' and 'The Graphic'. Early in his career he worked as a theatre designer and was much admired by the theatrical producer Herbert Beerbohm Tree. He also designed the Adam Room for the Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port Sunlight, Liverpool. He was the author of books and articles on furniture history
His address was given as 8 Coleherne Terrace, London in 1875 and 1882; 4 Penywern Road, London in 1883 and 1887; 8 Palace Court, Bayswater, Middlesex in 1901. He died on 20 March 1925. His address at the time of his death was The Yellow House, 8 Palace Court, Bayswater, Middlesex [now London]. The house had been designed and built for him by the architects Ernest George and Harold Peto.
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
