This is my great-great grandfather, Nathan Maynard. Nathan was born in 1805 at Whittlesford in Cambridgeshire. He was a grocer for most of his working life but also enjoyed painting scenes of his home village some of which have been published in a book about Whittlesford.
Nathan married Catherine Smith of Wadesmill Herts in London in 1827 and they returned to Whittlesford where they had nine children. Nathan was keen on education and sent his sons to the Perse School at Cambridge.
Nathan died at his home in Whittlesford in 1863.
This photo was probaby taken at the end of the 1850s.