‘Songs of Shakespeare,’ ‘Etched Thoughts,’ &c.), and also made drawings on wood for several popular classics, such as Thomson's ‘Seasons,’ ‘Sir Roger de Coverley,’ and Goldsmith's ‘Works.’ His art, though now somewhat old-fashioned, had a great vogue in his day, some of his drawings fetching over £350. at public auction in the 1900s. His powers were best displayed in rapid and suggestive sketches, in which, says Mr. Ruskin, ‘the quantity of effect obtained is enormous in proportion to the apparent means’. Style English artist and critic, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, described his style as having: ".. two distinct manners as an etcher: the highly-finished modern way, depending greatly on crevés,* of various depth, and on dry-point whose bur is removed; and another manner, resembling the work of a draughtsman on wood, in which the peculiar powers of etching are abandoned." References Bibliography Walter Armstrong, "Tayler, Frederick", Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 55 Frederick Tayler, Studies in animal painting: with eighteen coloured plates, from water-colour drawings, Publisher: Cassell, 1884, 24 pages. Books illustrated William John Thoms, Gammer Gurton's famous histories of sir Guy of Warwick, sir Bevis of Hampton [&c.] revised and amended by Amb[rose] Mer[ton], Published 1846 John Milton, ''L'Allegro', Publisher: the Etching club, 1849. 1802 births 1889 deaths People educated at Eton College People educated at Harrow School Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools 19th-century English painters English male painters English watercolourists People from Borehamwood 19th-century English male artists