Lot 693: Attributed to John ''Old Taylor'' Taylor, British

Attributed to John ''Old Taylor'' Taylor, British 1739-1838- Lady in Grecian dress playing the tambourine, with five figures dancing beyond in a landscape; watercolour and bodycolour, 52.8x36.8cm Note: John Taylor was a pupil of Hayman and at St. Martin's Lane Academy. He specialised in pencil portraits, of which he drew an enormous number, many at Oxford 1767-71. He exhibited all kinds of portraits SA 1764-77; FS 1767; RA 1778-1824; BI 1808-38, as well as many themes from literature. See Ellis Waterhouse, ''British 18th Century Painters'', Woodbridge, 1991, p. 366