£450
EDWARD TAYLER (1828-1906). Portrait miniature of John Hungerford Arkwright (1833-1905), half-length, wearing a dark brown jacket, a spaniel at his side, a landscape beyond, signed and dated 1867, watercolour on ivory, oval, 7½ x 6in (Ivory reference no SJQJE537). Sold together with an oval miniature on ivory by another hand, c. 1865, 8½ x 7in, with horizontal surface crack, unglazed, A/F, (Ivory reference no. NNT2XVBN) depicting a lady wearing a striped shawl, believed to be Charlotte Lucy Arkwright (née Davenport), wife of J.H. Arkwright.
John Hungerford Arkwright was the great-grandson of the cotton-spinning industrialist Sir Richard Arkwright. He was educated at Eton and Christchurch, Oxford. At the age of 25 he inherited the Hampton Court Estate, near Leominster, on his father's death in 1858. Arkwright was Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire from 1902-1904, and was one of the wealthiest landowners in Herefordshire.
The artist, Edward Tayler, exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, between 1849 and 1905. He had originally trained with his uncle, the watercolourist, Frederick Tayler. His patrons included Queen Victoria and the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra). Provenance: The Arkwright Family by descent
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