Francis Lenn Taylor (December 28, 1897 – November 20, 1968) was an American art dealer and the father of actress

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Life and career

He was born in Springfield, Illinois, the son of Elizabeth Mary (née Rosemond; 1869–1937) and Francis Marion Taylor (1860–1946). The family later moved to

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. Francis began dealing in art in New York City for a wealthy uncle by marriage, Stephen Howard Young (22 May 1878 - 24 June 1972), later, a friend of

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after World War II. Taylor married stage actress

Sara Sothern Sara Sothern (born Sara Viola Warmbrodt; August 21, 1895 – September 11, 1994) was an American stage actress and the mother of actress Elizabeth Taylor. Life and career Sothern was born Sara Viola Warmbrodt in Arkansas City, Kansas, the daught ...

(whose real name was Sara Viola Warmbrodt and who was also from Arkansas City) in 1926 in New York. They were the parents of Howard Taylor (1929-2020) and of

(1932-2011). Within a few years of his marriage, Taylor was transferred to Young's art

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in London, England, where he and Sara lived for several years, and where their children were born. In April 1939, five months before the outbreak of World War II in Europe, they returned to the United States. Taylor later ran an art gallery at The Beverly Hills Hotel in California. He died at age 70 in Los Angeles, California. He is interred beside his widow in

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in Westwood, Los Angeles.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Francis Lenn 1897 births 1968 deaths American art dealers Elizabeth Taylor People from Arkansas City, Kansas People from Springfield, Illinois