Jefferys Taylor was a member of a dynasty of writers and artists who flourished in the first half of the 19th century.
Soon after his birth, he was pictured as a nursling in his mother's arms in the background of his father's painting of the family, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Possessed of considerable ingenuity, he eventually profited from the invention of a machine for engraving parallel lines.
Two centuries on, its unsentimental view of childhood has been perceived as a forerunner of Lord of the Flies.
On 20 June, 1826, Jefferys married Sophia Mabbs, by whom he had a son, Edward, who died young.