Taylor was a landscape painter from Bath who employed the universal Classical manner of the period, ultimately derived from Claude and Gaspard Dughet, but re-invented by Richard Wilson (1714-82) and Thomas Jones (1742-1803).

This is one of a pair of landscapes (OM 1130-1, 405054 and 404592) of 1769 and 1770, which were presented to George III and hung in the Coffee Room at Kew Palace. An evening landscape with fishermen casting their nets on a river crossed by a stone bridge; on the right a building in classical style among trees with an extensive landscape beyond.

Signed and dated: John Taylor. Invt. & Pinxt / 1770