William Pengree Sherlock

For his father, see William Sherlock (painter).

William Pengree Sherlock
Nationality	British
Occupation	Artist

William Pengree Sherlock was a British artist.

Biography

From 1801 to 1810 Sherlock exhibited at the Royal Academy, sending a few portraits, but principally watercolour landscapes in the style of Richard Wilson, to whom his works have sometimes been attributed. He drew most of the illustrations to William Dickinson's ‘Antiquities of Nottinghamshire,’ 1801–6, and the portrait of the author prefixed to that work was engraved from a miniature by him. In 1811 and the following years he published a series of soft ground-etchings from his own watercolour drawings, and those of David Cox, Samuel Prout, Thomas Girtin, and other leading watercolour artists of the day. A series of drawings in watercolour by W. P. Sherlock, representing views in the immediate neighbourhood of London, was preserved in the print-room at the British Museum. They are not only of great historical interest, but also show him to have been an artist of remarkable merit.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cust, Lionel Henry (1897). "Sherlock, William (fl.1759-1806)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 52. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

External links

• Media related to William Pengree Sherlock at Wikimedia Commons