English School. John James Talman, oil on canvas, half-length portrait of a dark-haired gentleman wearing a dark coat and cravat with a white waistcoat, sometime re-lined and discreetly restored (one or two small chips), together with a portrait of his mother wearing a black silk gown with small brooch at the neck, a pale blue fringed shawl, and a frilled and beribboned bonnet, sometime relined and substantially repaired, each 76 x 63.5cm (30 x 25ins), matching ornate gilt moulded frames, the former with old printed framer’s label on verso ‘Vokins Carver and Gilder, Oxford Street’. Provenance: By family descent. John James Talman (1798-1864), the son of Reverend John James and Mary Talman, was born at Peldon, Essex and died at Oak Hall, East Ham, Essex. He married Mary Lea Wilson in 1840 at Streatham, Surrey. He was Gentleman at Arms to three monarchs - George IV, William IV and Queen Victoria (being sworn in on her accession to the throne). He was elected to the Bank of England in 1816 and became Principal of the Chancery and Exchequer Office in 1858. Mary Talman (1774-1862) was the daughter of Dr. Samuel Forster Registrar of Oxford University. Her husband, Reverend John James Talman MA, was Chaplain of Bromley College in Kent, Vicar of North Curry and of Stogumber in Somerset, Chaplain to the Earl of Enniskillen and acting Chaplain to the Bishop of Rochester. (2)
English School. John James Talman, oil on canvas, half-length portrait of a dark-haired gentleman wearing a dark coat and cravat with a white waistcoat, sometime re-lined and discreetly restored (one or two small chips), together with a portrait of his mother wearing a black silk gown with small brooch at the neck, a pale blue fringed shawl, and a frilled and beribboned bonnet, sometime relined and substantially repaired, each 76 x 63.5cm (30 x 25ins), matching ornate gilt moulded frames, the former with old printed framer’s label on verso ‘Vokins Carver and Gilder, Oxford Street’. Provenance: By family descent. John James Talman (1798-1864), the son of Reverend John James and Mary Talman, was born at Peldon, Essex and died at Oak Hall, East Ham, Essex. He married Mary Lea Wilson in 1840 at Streatham, Surrey. He was Gentleman at Arms to three monarchs - George IV, William IV and Queen Victoria (being sworn in on her accession to the throne). He was elected to the Bank of England in 1816 and became Principal of the Chancery and Exchequer Office in 1858. Mary Talman (1774-1862) was the daughter of Dr. Samuel Forster Registrar of Oxford University. Her husband, Reverend John James Talman MA, was Chaplain of Bromley College in Kent, Vicar of North Curry and of Stogumber in Somerset, Chaplain to the Earl of Enniskillen and acting Chaplain to the Bishop of Rochester. (2)
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