George Watson Taylor
(1771-1841), Plantation owner, collector and MP for Newport, Seaford, East Looe and DevizesRegency Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 4 portraits
Taylor was a picture collector and an MP.
by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, 1819
NPG 316a(155)
Study for 'Patrons and Lovers of Art'
by Pieter Christoffel Wonder
oil on canvas, 1826-1830
NPG 792
by Edward Scriven, after George Sanders (Saunders)
stipple engraving, 1828 (1808)
NPG D40838
by Edward Scriven, after George Sanders (Saunders)
stipple engraving, 1828 (1808)
NPG D16023
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Paul Cook
02 April 2019, 15:13
Legacies of British Slave-ownership:
"a flamboyant and fabulously wealthy Jamaican plantation owner, George Watson Taylor. His fortune, derived from sugar but dependent on slave labour, enabled him to number among his close friends the king, William IV, and to throw extravagant entertainments. But when he failed in his campaign, waged as a Devizes MP, against the abolition of slavery this life-style became unsustainable, and after 1832 Taylor descended into virtual bankruptcy, dying in 1841"