Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889, Frederick Tayler letter to Richard Redgrave, 1855 December 3
- Call Number:
- MSS 22
- Creator:
- Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889
- Title(s):
- Frederick Tayler letter to Richard Redgrave
- Date:
- 1855 December 3
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 2, folder 113
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
- Scope and Content:
- Tayler writes to follow up on his request for reimbursement for travel to Paris as a representative and judge for the Old Water Colour Society at the 1855 Paris Exhibition. He informs Redgrave that there has been an accusation of impropriety made against Tayler by William Evans of Eton regarding Tayler's actions in Paris as a juror and committee member.. The matter came to the fore during the proceedings to elect John Frederick Lewis to the position of President of the Old Water Colour Society, a position which Tayler had been expected to attain. Tayler mentions that Horace Vernet, who was awarded a medal in 1855 while also serving as a judge, attempted to return his medal but was refused on the grounds that it would be an insult to the Emperor. Taylor writes that he was also awarded a medal while being a judge and that this, according to his detractors, was his "great crime as a juror." He did not intend to return his medal as he deemed it "a deserved professional distinction of which I might be justly proud."
- Additional Notes:
- Addressed from: Westbourne Grove, Bayswater
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (4 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 21 x 26 cm folded to 21 x 13 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence
- Subject Terms:
- ArtistsEtchersPaintersPaintingWomen painters
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863Cooke, Edward William, 1811-1880Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865Etching Club (London, England)Exposition universelle de Paris en 1855Faed, Thomas, 1825-1900Frith, William Powell, 1819-1909Gilbert, John, 1817-1897Goodall, Edward A.Haden, Francis Seymour, 1818-1910Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894Holl, Francis, 1815-1884Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910Inchbold, John William, 1830-1888Knight, John Prescott, 1803-1881Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896Lewis, Charles George, 1808-1880Linnell, WilliamMaclise, Daniel, 1806-1870Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896O'Neill, Henry, 1798-1880Poynter, Edward John, 1836-1919Redgrave, Richard, 1804-1888Richmond, George, 1809-1896Roberts, David, 1796-1864Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877Stanfield, George ClarksonStreet, George Edmund, 1824-1881Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889Waterhouse, Alfred, 1830-1905Westmacott, Richard, 1799-1872
- Finding Aid Title:
- Letters to Richard Redgrave
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450192
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450192?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1