カンタベリーでのケント対ランカシャー戦

In 1906 Kent won the County Championship for the first time, and the club wanted a picture to mark it. Lord Harris, the chairman, asked for an action scene from Canterbury Cricket Week, with the great slow bowler Colin Blythe caught in the act of bowling — Blythe had taken eight wickets in the match against Lancashire that August, which is why that game was chosen. Tayler didn't paint it all at once from the boundary. He brought the Kent players to his London studio one by one and sat them individually, then built the crowd and the tents around them. One figure is a stand-in: the Lancashire batsman was meant to be Harry Makepeace, but Makepeace couldn't make the sitting, so Tayler used William Findlay, who hadn't even played in the match. The finished canvas hangs today in the Long Room at Lord's.