Lot 170: CHARLES FOOT TAYLER (BRITISH, FL. 1818-1853)

Maria Henrietta Baillie (b. 1819) seated in a red upholstered chair, in sea-green dress, white stole draped over her right arm and holding her sister, Dora Pauline Baillie's (1824-1852) right hand, in blue dress with pleated bodice, centre-parted dark curling hair; draped brown curtain background with gold fringing: together with their mother, Maria Anne Baillie (d. 1849), seated in a red-upholstered wooden chair, in blue dress with white underdress, white Cashmere stole with embroidered border draped over her right shoulder, blue-embroidered and yellow striped cream turban with large orange plume in her curling dark hair; and their brother, Evan Baillie (b. 1816), in pale brown coat and waistcoat, knotted cravat, fair hair and sideburns (attributed to William Egley, circa 1840)
signed on the backing paper 'Painted by C F. Tayler Bath 18[31]'; and signed and dated on the backing paper 'Bath 1831 By C F Tayler'
rectangular, 3 3/4 x 2 13/16 in. (95 x 71 mm.), 3 3/4 x 2 13/16 in. (96 x 71 mm.), ormolu mounts, and oval, 3 5/16 in. (84 mm.) high, stamped gilt-metal mount, respectively (3)

Maria Anna, daughter of Alexander Thomas Morse, married Evan Hamilton Baillie and is buried at Chilcompton, Somerset. Of their children: Evan Baillie was born in India on 7 May 1816; daughter, Maria Henrietta born 18 July 1819, married John Martin of 14 Berkeley Square, London and Upper Hall, Ledbury and had four sons and five daughters; and daughter Dora Pauline also born in India on 24 June 1824 married General Sir Thomas Westropp MacMahon, Bt. on 7 October 1851, and died in London on 23 September 1852.

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