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George Taylor

4 of 22 portraits by Andrew Miller

George Taylor

sold by Andrew Miller
mezzotint, circa 1738-1739
13 7/8 in. x 9 7/8 in. (351 mm x 250 mm) plate size
acquired unknown source, 1952
Reference Collection
NPG D10734

Sitterback to top

George Taylor (died 1750), Boxer and prize fighter. Sitter in 2 portraits.

Artistback to top

Andrew Miller (circa 1690-1763), Mezzotint engraver. Artist associated with 22 portraits.

Placesback to top

Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (Coffin, the upper end of Wytch Street, near the New Church in the Strand, London)

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Mezzotint

Events of 1738back to top

Current affairs

Fetter Lane Society founded in London by the Moravians; a reformed group of Protestants led by exiled Saxon Count Nicolaus von Zinzendorf. He visits Britain to petition the king for protection for Moravian missionaries working in the British colonies. An act to this effect is finally passed in 1749.
John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement.

Art and science

Artist Allan Ramsay returns to London from Rome and sets himself up as a portrait painter.
Metallurgist William Champion patents a process to distil zinc from calamine using charcoal in a smelter.

International

Methodist preacher George Whitefield arrives in Savannah, Georgia to replace John Wesley; the first of seven visits across the Atlantic which make him one of the most widely recognised figures in the American colonies.
Merchant sailor Robert Jenkins presents his pickled ear (cut off by Spanish coast-guards in Cuba in 1731) to Parliament stirring up war fever against Spain and leading to the War of Jenkins' Ear the following year.

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