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Taverner, William
(b Canterbury, 1703; d 20 Oct 1772). English painter and lawyer. He was a grandson of Jeremiah Taverner, a minor portrait painter, and son of William Taverner (d 1731), an ecclesiastical lawyer, artist and dramatist. Taverner himself also took up law, eventually rising to the position his father had held, that of Procurator-General of the Court of Arches of Canterbury. His artistic activities were performed in a strictly amateur capacity, and he was shy of showing his works. By 1733, however, he was becoming well-known in artistic circles and, according to Vertue, had ‘a wonderfull genius to drawing of Landskap ... & paints in oil in a very commendable & masterly manner’. Taverner’s oil paintings are untraced, and his reputation rests on his landscape watercolours, comparatively few of which survive (none dated).
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