both full length, in a landscape with their pony

Commissioned from the artist by the Taylor family, Strensham Court,  c.1825;
by family descent to James Arthur🅰 Taylor's great-grand daug♏hter

STRUCTURE The canvas has been lined. PAINT SURFACE The general appearance is good. Re-touching is visible to the background on the left of the canvas. There is a vertical surface mark in the upper right of the canvas which could easily be cleaned off. ULTRAVIOLET Ultraviolet light reveals that scattered re-touching has been carried out to the left and lower half of the canvas. FRAME The painting is unframed.
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The sitters were the great grandsons of John Taylor (1711-1775), the founder of Taylor and Lloyds Bank which ultimately became Lloyd's Bank.  Taylor and Lloyds ran for about 100 years. James Arthur joined the family firm, but in 1853 he and his half brother William Francis resigned from it. The Taylors had owned a large amount of land in Birmingham much of which was sold by James' son Arthur James. Humphrey Lloyd relates the history of the Taylor family and Lloyds Bank, in The Quaker Lloyds in the Industrial Revolution, 1975.