Landscape with Figures

Taylor was a landscape painter from Bath who employed the universal Classical manner of the period, ultimately derived from Claude and Gaspard Dughet, but re-invented by Richard Wilson (1714-82) and Thomas Jones (1742-1803).

This is one of a pair of landscapes (OM 1130-1, 405054 and 404592) of 1769 and 1770, which were presented to George III and hung in the Coffee Room at Kew Palace. In the foreground, a young woman leans over a fence on which a man is seated; they are conversing with a passing traveller, who rides towards a river crossed by a stone bridge; in the distance, a castle and an estuary with shipping