Description
Autograph Letter Signed, incorporating a small sketch of a head above the signature, illustrating the text, on receiving “the proof of the Abbot of Unreason”, suggesting a softening of the line of the cheek bone of the Page. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, light toning. At Col. Hildgard’s, Manor House, Stokesley, Yorkshire, 9 August 1843. John Frederick Tayler (1802-1889), artist, studied under Vernet, and for a time shared a studio with Bonington. It was as a painter of ‘elegant’ sporting and pastoral scenes in watercolour that he achieved the popularity which was maintained throughout his long career. His sporting subjects were of two classes, some dealing with the costumes and accessories of eighteenth-century stag-hunts, others with incidents of contemporary sport in the highlands of Scotland. Akin to these were his illustrative drawings of costume and scenery, many of them suggested by incidents in the ‘Waverley Novels.’ He became president of the Royal Watercolour Society.