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Last Name Taylor
Given Name Simon
alt. Names S. T. ;
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Year born 1742
Year died 1796 c.
Place of death
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Education student of William Shipley (1714-1803) in London
Country of Activity United Kingdom
Worked for John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792) c. 1760; Dr. John Fothergill (1712-1780); John Ellis (c. 1710-76), Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelles: Geraniologia ;
Patronage collection bought by Empress of Russia;
Collaborators John Miller/Müller ; Ehret ; engraver Pierre Maleuvre ;
Techniques botanical painting and watercolour ;
Sample(s) http://prints.kew.org/art/393467/Fritillara_persica ; http://www.oakspring.org/lutonhoo.html ;
Archival sources Oak Spring Garden Library; Natural History Museum London; Kew Herbarium ;
Published sources AKL ; Bryan's dict. V 1905: 156 ; ThB 32 1938: 495 ; Oak Spring Flora pp 204-6 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; Sawyer 1971: 19 1; W. L. Tjaden, Kew Bulletin 26(1) 197:167-9 ; Daniels 1974: 61 ;
other Further archival source: http://www.oakspring.org/lutonhoo.html.
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