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10th August 1957

Punch goes on to enquire whether these hooligans could possibly be the same gentle creatures as Cardinal Wiseman's little lambs

whom he regularly tended to depict as innocents

'A South Sea ballad'

Portrait of Brook Taylor (1685-1731) Size:L: 75 x 60cm 10th August 1957Head and shoulders portrait of Brook Taylor in a painted oval, wearing a shoulder length grey wig. Taylor is dressed in a light brown coat with prominent buttons, opened to show a yellow silk waistcoat brocaded in a floral design with silver and dark green, also open, and a white shirt and cravat. Artist unknown, possibly by studio of Hans Hysing (1678 1752 or 1753). Taylor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. Original: oil on canvas,

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