In 1734 a young Fellow of the Royal Society, Taylor White, made a proposal to the Council that the dried plants in the Society’s RepositoryMuseum ‘be painted by the hand ofMrVanHuyssen’. Sir Hans Sloane, the President, added his support, and the Council adopted Mr White’s recommendation and charged him with engaging the botanical artist Jacob van Huysum (ca 1687–1740) to depict in watercolour the plants sent from the Chelsea Physic Garden in London. This is the first evidence of an interest in natural history and its representation that would inform the rest of Taylor White’s life and lead him to amass a collection of almost 1500 paintings of plants and animals over the course of the next forty years. Despite his lifelong dedication, Taylor White never succeeded in publishing his collection, nor his speculations on classification of birds and other animals. He is remembered rather for his service to his profession—his coat of arms is executed in stained glass in the chapel at Lincoln’s Inn where he was a Bencher (a senior member)—and his contributions to the Foundling Hospital, where he was Treasurer for twenty-five years. His portrait in pastel by the artist Francis Cotes (1726–1770) hung on the walls of the Hospital as did the grand seascape he commissioned from the maritime painter Charles Brooking (ca 1723–1759). His collection of natural history paintings was not, however, dispersed at his death, unlike the similar collection of his friend the botanist Robert More (1703–1780), which was sold at auction in 1784. The twenty-nine portfolios of paintings commissioned by Taylor White remained with the White family for over 150 years until 1926, when they appeared at auction in London. Here, in the Sotheby’s showroom, the hundreds of brilliantly coloured birds, wide-eyed mammals and intricately patterned fish caught the attention of Dr Casey Wood (1856–1942), founder of the Blacker Wood Library of Ornithology and Zoology at McGill University in Montreal. Wood attended the June 1926 sale of ‘Valuable Printed Books, Illuminated Manuscripts and Miniatures, Autograph Letters and Historical Documents’, but according to the handwritten notes on the British Library’s copy of the sale Catalogue, Wood bought only a few small items. On the third day of the sale, however, he was impressed by Lot 657A. The lot was described as ‘A Magnificent Collection of Fourteen Hundred and Sixty-Two Original Water-Colour Drawings of Natural History Subjects’. This lot comprised nearly 500 botanical drawings by Jacob van Huysum and Georg Ehret (1708–1770) and over 900 watercolours

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简介：未描述：泰勒怀特（1701-1772）和他的收藏

1734 年，一位年轻的皇家学会会员泰勒怀特向理事会​​提出了一项建议，即“由范惠森先生亲手绘制”皇家学会收藏博物馆中的干植物。总统汉斯·斯隆爵士表示支持，理事会采纳了怀特先生的建议，并责成他聘请植物艺术家 Jacob van Huysum（约 1687-1740 年）用水彩画从伦敦切尔西植物园送来的植物。这是对自然历史及其表现的兴趣的第一个证据，这将为泰勒怀特的余生提供信息，并导致他在接下来的四十年中收集了近 1500 幅动植物画作。尽管他毕生奉献，泰勒怀特从未成功出版他的收藏，也不是他对鸟类和其他动物分类的推测。他被人们铭记是因为他对自己的职业的贡献——他的盾形纹章是在林肯旅馆的小教堂里用彩色玻璃制作的，他在那里担任过法官（高级成员）——以及他对弃婴医院的贡献，他在那里担任财务主管二十五年。他由艺术家弗朗西斯·科特斯（Francis Cotes，1726-1770 年）绘制的粉彩肖像挂在医院的墙壁上，他委托海洋画家查尔斯·布鲁金（Charles Brooking，约 1723-1759 年）创作的宏伟海景也是如此。然而，与他的朋友植物学家罗伯特·莫尔（Robert More，1703-1780 年）在 1784 年拍卖的类似收藏品不同，他的自然历史绘画收藏在他去世时并未散布。泰勒怀特委托的二十九幅画作在怀特家族中保留了 150 多年，直到 1926 年它们出现在伦敦的拍卖会上。在苏富比的陈列室里，数百只色彩鲜艳的鸟类、睁大眼睛的哺乳动物和图案复杂的鱼引起了蒙特利尔麦吉尔大学布莱克伍德鸟类学和动物学图书馆创始人凯西伍德博士 (1856-1942) 的注意. 伍德参加了 1926 年 6 月的“有价值的印刷书籍、发光手稿和缩影、亲笔签名信件和历史文献”的拍卖会，但根据大英图书馆销售目录副本上的手写笔记，伍德只买了几件小物品。然而，在拍卖的第三天，Lot 657A 给他留下了深刻的印象。该拍品被描述为“一千四百六十二幅自然历史主题水彩原画的宏伟收藏”。该拍品包括 Jacob van Huysum 和 Georg Ehret (1708–1770) 的近 500 幅植物画以及 900 多幅水彩画