Sherlock, William P., 1775-

[William Pengree Sherlock (b. 1775), son of Sherlock, William (c.1738-1806) the portrait painter and engraver, was baptized on 20 August 1776 at St Marylebone, Marylebone Road, Middlesex. He also practised as an artist. He entered the Royal Academy Schools on 31 December 1794, aged nineteen, and then exhibited there from 1801 to 1810, sending a few portraits, but principally watercolour landscapes. He drew most of the illustrations to W. Dickinson's Antiquities historical, architectural, chorographical, and itinerary, in Nottinghamshire and the adjacent counties (1801-3), and also painted the miniature of the author from which the frontispiece to the work was engraved. In 1811 and following years he published a series of soft ground-etchings after his own watercolour drawings, and those of David Cox, S. Prout, and T. Girtin, among others. A series of drawings in watercolour, representing views in the immediate neighbourhood of London, is in the British Museum. Joseph Farington records Sherlock's unsuccessful application for the post of drawing master at the Royal Military Academy in 1808 (Farington, Diary, 9.3302).]

found: Hoskins, G.A. Travels in Ethiopia ... 1835:plate (on stone by W.P. Sherlock)

found: Concise DNB(Sherlock, William P.; fl. 1800-1820; water-colour painter and etcher)

found: ODNB, viewed online 25 June 2013(William Pengree Sherlock, b. 1775, baptized on 20 August 1776 at St Marylebone, Marylebone Road, Middlesex.

[William Pengree Sherlock (b. 1775), son of Sherlock, William (c.1738-1806) the portrait painter and engraver, was baptized on 20 August 1776 at St Marylebone, Marylebone Road, Middlesex. He also practised as an artist. He entered the Royal Academy Schools on 31 December 1794, aged nineteen, and then exhibited there from 1801 to 1810, sending a few portraits, but principally watercolour landscapes. He drew most of the illustrations to W. Dickinson's Antiquities historical, architectural, chorographical, and itinerary, in Nottinghamshire and the adjacent counties (1801-3), and also painted the miniature of the author from which the frontispiece to the work was engraved. In 1811 and following years he published a series of soft ground-etchings after his own watercolour drawings, and those of David Cox, S. Prout, and T. Girtin, among others. A series of drawings in watercolour, representing views in the immediate neighbourhood of London, is in the British Museum. Joseph Farington records Sherlock's unsuccessful application for the post of drawing master at the Royal Military Academy in 1808 (Farington, Diary, 9.3302).]