Isidore Justin Séverin, Baron Taylor (5 August 1789 – 6 September 1879) was a French dramatist, artist, and philanthropist. He was closely associated with the development of French theatre, a pioneer of Romanticism , and also a noted traveller.
17-577: Lord Taylor or Baron Taylor may refer to: Baron Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor (1789–1860), a royal commissioner of the Théâtre-Français Bernard Taylor, Baron Taylor of Mansfield (1895–1991), British coalminer and politician, Labour Party MP Francis Taylor, Baron Taylor of Hadfield (1905–1995), founder of the housebuilder Taylor Woodrow Stephen Taylor, Baron Taylor (1910–1988),
34-490: A Conservative peer in 2006 John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick (born 1952), the first black Conservative peer See also [ edit ] Lord & Taylor , department store chain Baroness Taylor (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lord Taylor . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
51-755: A senator of the Second Empire in 1869 and made an officer of the Legion of Honour in 1877. After his death, Taylor was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery with a memorial statue by sculptor Gabriel-Jules Thomas . A decorative bust by Tony Noel (1845-1909) was also erected on behalf of the Taylor Foundation on the Boulevard Saint Martin. Both of these show the baron in old age. There were attractive earlier portraits of him by Jean Alaux when he
68-573: The Theatre Francaise . He used this position to encourage the production of Romantic drama . Among those he helped was Alexandre Dumas , who dedicated to Taylor his first successful play, Henri III et sa cour (The court of Henry III, 1829). Taylor himself authored plays with a Levantine background, Ismael et Maryam, ou l'arabe et la chrétienne (The Arab and the Christian, 1821) and La fille de l'Hébreu et le chevalier du temple (The Jewess and
85-531: The French regions, Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France (1820–63), the nearly 7000 lithographs in which were the first to catalogue the French artistic patrimony. Another book, La Syrie, l'Égypte, la Palestine et la Judée (Paris, 1839), was illustrated with the author's watercolours , two of which are now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum . Ennobled in 1825 by King Charles X , he
102-554: The Spanish territory. In 1835, he founded an "artistic mission" directed by Baron Isidore Taylor , which was in charge of constituting quickly a vast collection of Spanish paintings. Taylor acquired a huge collection of hundreds of paintings from primitive paintings to the Spanish Golden Age . Many of the paintings he acquired were unknown from the public because they came from religious collections. The Spanish Gallery opened to
119-596: The Templar, 1823) and co-authored with Charles Nodier an adaptation of Charles Maturin 's successful drama, Bertram ou le pirate (1821). After age 50 in the 1840s he focussed on philanthropic activity, setting up several mutual societies for members of the artistic professions. They continue to this day as the Taylor Foundation . In recognition of his work he was elected to the Académie Française in 1847, named
136-451: The admiration of the public. However, the collection, which counted 450 paintings, was criticized for its inconsistency. Taylor sent "en masse" the paintings, without any preliminary selection, and nobody in the Louvre had the required expertise to operate this selection. Masters as Murillo and Zurbaran were shown alongside much smaller artists. After the death of Louis Philippe, the collection
153-695: The information is based on the article in the French Misplaced Pages. Spanish gallery The Spanish gallery , also called Spanish museum was a gallery of Spanish painting created by French King Louis Philippe I in 1838, shown in the Louvre , then dismantled in 1853. Until the French Revolution , Spanish art was seldom shown or known in France. it appeared at the Louvre with the Napoleonic Wars and
170-528: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord_Taylor&oldid=1173021871 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Title and name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Baron Isidore Justin S%C3%A9verin Taylor Isidore Taylor
187-530: The looting politics of Vivant Denon . However, stolen art pieces were given back by France after the Congress of Vienna (1814–1815). Louis Philippe decided in 1835 to found a Spanish painting gallery in the Louvre. He had several motivations: Beginning in 1810, French occupation and repression in Spain made it highly unstable. The secularization of religious orders facilitated the selling of their art pieces outside of
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#1732844083325204-466: The public on 1838/01/07, in five rooms on the first floor of the Louvre Cour Carrée 's East ( Colonnade ) Wing. The opening was accompanied by a lot of Royal marketing and publicity. Louis Philippe stressed the point that the collection was acquired on his own founds. The collection counted for example 81 Zurbaran , 39 Murillo , 28 Ribera , 23 Cano , and 19 Velázquez . Many paintings attracted
221-515: The sixth life peer to be created (1958) Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gryfe (1912–2001), British politician Tom Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn (1929–2016), Labour member of the House of Lords Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth (1930–1997), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 1992 to 1996 Matthew Taylor, Baron Taylor of Goss Moor (born 1963), Liberal Democrat peer John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach (born 1943), created
238-452: Was 22, and by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz at the age of 44. The latter is a three-quarters bust that pictures him in his official uniform in 1838. He also figures in the crowded canvas of Édouard Manet 's Music in the Tuileries (1862). Taylor is pictured in the mid-foreground to the left with his cane beneath his arm as he talks to Charles Baudelaire and Theophile Gautier . Much of
255-647: Was born in Brussels on 5 August 1789; his father Hélie Taylor was English born and took French nationality, and his mother was the Belgian Marie-Jacqueline Walwein (from what was then the Austrian Netherlands ). Originally destined for a military career, the young man neglected this in favour of travelling about Europe and later the Near East. Among the fruits of his travels was a series of books on
272-490: Was by this time collecting Spanish art on behalf of the new French King Louis Philippe I , who made him a Commissioner of Art in 1838. These paintings constituted the then named Spanish gallery of the Louvre . George Borrow describes meeting Taylor before and during the 1830s in his book The Bible in Spain . Early on the Baron was also active in the theatrical world. Between 1825 and 1838 he served as Royal Commissioner of
289-563: Was dismantled in London, from 6 to 8 May 1853, during an auction in Christie's . Only one painting was forgotten in the reserves and remained in the Louvre ( The deploration of Christ by Jaume Huguet ). One of the painting came back later to the Louvre in 1908: "Le Christ en croix adoré par deux donateurs" from El Greco , bought from the Prades town for 25000 francs. Nowadays only these two paintings from
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