A Wooded Classical Landscape at Evening with Figures in the Foreground
A Wooded Classical Landscape at Evening with Figures in the Foreground
Artist
John Taylor
(1735 - 1806)
Date1772
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions40 x 50 in. (101.6 x 127 cm)
Framed: 48 in. × 57 in. × 3 1/2 in.
Framed: 48 in. × 57 in. × 3 1/2 in.
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2011.13
Signedl.r.: JTaylor 1772
Accession number
2011.13
On View
On viewLabel TextFounding father Benjamin Franklin declared John Taylor among America’s geniuses, along with Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley. Unlike his companions, however, Taylor was never a professional artist in the colonies before traveling and settling permanently in England in 1762.
Taylor was born in Philadelphia in 1735, where his family was part of the in-crowd and his father was friends with Franklin. In the eighteenth century, Philadelphia was one of the largest cities in the colonies, with about 13,000 people in 1750.
Benjamin Franklin, uno de los padres fundadores de los Estados Unidos, declaró que John Taylor era uno de los genios norteamericanos, junto a Benjamin West y John Singleton Copley. Sin embargo, a diferencia de sus compañeros, Taylor nunca fue un artista profesional en las colonias, antes de viajar y asentarse permanentemente en Inglaterra en 1762.
Taylor nació en 1735 en Filadelfia, donde su familia formaba parte de los círculos sociales populares y su padre era amigo de Franklin. En el siglo XVIII, Filadelfia era una de las ciudades más grandes de las colonias, con una población de alrededor de 13,000 personas en 1750.
