Henry Corbin (1621-1676)

The portrait generally said to represent him (seen in the image) belonged in the collection of the Misses Tayloe of Mount Airy and is almost certainly not him. Miss Estelle Tayloe (one of the owners in the 1920s) stated that her father always believed it to be "Henry, father of Richard Corbin who married Betty Tayloe". She wrote to Charles Knowlton Bolton saying so, but he believed it to be a son of Henry, perhaps Gawin Corbin, and pointed out that Richard Corbin's father was not Henry, but was indeed Gawin. Dr. J. Hall Pleasants placed the subject in his early forties and stated that the costume and wig denotes someone painted in the 1710s/1720s, meaning it can't be Henry. Modern research suggests that the portrait was painted by the same artist who painted Elizabeth Gwynne Lyde Tayloe and David Lyde, c.1720, which would strongly suggest that the subject is misidentified and potentially represents John Tayloe or Stephen Lyde (Mrs Tayloe's first husband) or indeed someone else in the Lyde, Tayloe, or Corbin family.