Captain Edward Taylor

Artist Abraham P. Demarest

Period1835

MediumPencil on paper

DimensionsImage: 3 × 2.5 in. (7.6 × 6.4 cm)
Frame: 5.5 × 5 in. (14 × 12.7 cm)

InscribedInk inscription on verso cardboard backing "Edward Taylor/1767-1857/Pair."

Markings"36" stamped in upper left corner of frame verso.

ClassificationsPortrait Miniatures & Silhouettes

Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Amory Haskell, 1940

Object number1983.534

DescriptionA profile portrait of Edward Taylor (1764-1855), approximately seventy years of age, facing right. Edward wears his hair brushed forward over his forehead. He wears a white shirt with collar points extending above the jawline, a white stock with kerchief-tied stock ends, a dark waistcoat and black coat with a notched lapel.
Curatorial RemarksEdward Taylor was born in Middletown in 1764, the son of Colonel George Taylor. Edward Taylor married Sarah Lloyd, daughter of John and Ann Longstreet Lloyd of Imlaystown. Edward resided in his later years in the house east of Chrsit Church in the village of Middletown, built by his grandfather George Taylor in 1729. He was a Captain in the Third New Jersey Regiment, part of the forces sent by George Washington to Western Pennsylvania in 1794 to quell the "Whiskey Boys Rebellion."NotesThis portrait has been attributed to Abraham P. Demarest (1793-1869), who is likely to have been the itinerant artsit working in and around the Middletown, Monmouth County area ca.1835. More than twenty pencil profile portraits have been identified as the same artist. Demarest later appears in New York City directories, his profession noted as that of engraver, die sinker, and seal engraver.

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