Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Isaac Taylor (1787-1865), Writer and artist; eldest son of Ann and Isaac Taylor

Artist, author and inventor; trained as an engraver; translated the classics; published theological and philosophical works, including The Natural History of Enthusiasm, 1830; later wrote devotional and biographical works; invented a beer tap and a machine for engraving on copper.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.