Art
Tribute to Rembrandt
Tribute to Rembrandt
Title: Portrait of a Gentleman with a Tall Hat and Gloves (1944)
Artist: W.H. Taylor
Image size: 21” x 17” (53.3 x 43.2 cm)
Description: Oil on board. Unsigned. Accompanied by a letter from artist’s daughter, Olive de Groot, confirming the painting is her father’s work. Framed. The painting is a fair copy of one by the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669). Rembrandt’s painting, Portrait of a Gentleman with a Tall Hat and Gloves, was completed in about 1658.
William Hughes Taylor (1891-1978). Born in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. He immigrated to Canada with his family in 1897. Taylor studied under William Brymner and Maurice Cullen at the school of Art Association of Montreal, and the Monument National Montreal. He worked mainly in Montreal, but also painted in Quebec City and the Gaspe, Nova Scotia and Massachusetts. Working in oil, pastels, watercolor and etching, his subjects include landscape, portraits, streetscapes, buildings and fishing scenes. He worked for a time as an illustrator with Imperial Tobacco. Taylor exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy between 1918 and 1958. His work is in the National Gallery of Canada.