Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21427

    Portrait of Charles Taylor

    Date
    1816
    Sitter
    Charles Taylor Howard (British) , Physician
    Creator
    Charles Warren (1762 - 1823, British) , Engraver
    After
    Thomas Uwins (1782 - 1857, British) , Painter
    Object type
    Library reference
    31094
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 203mm
    width (print): 120mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Charles Taylor, seated, turned to the right as viewed, head inclined slightly and regarding the viewer. The sitter is shown wearing a coat, waistcoat and cravat, holding a quill pen in his right hand, in the act of writing.

    Frontispiece to Transactions of the Society, instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce…[Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts] v.35 (1817).

    Inscribed below: ‘Painted by Thos. Uwins. Engraved by Chas. Evans. Chas. Taylor M.D. Late Secretary to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, & Commerce. From a Miniature in the Possession of Mts. Taylor.’

    Charles Taylor Howard (d.1816) British physician and calico printer in the firm of Taylor and Maxwell of Manchester, was later Secretary of the Royal Society of Arts from 1800.
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