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SHERWIN, JOHN KEYSE (1751-1790)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 853 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SHERWIN, JOHN KEYSE (1751-1790) , English engraver and history-painter, was born in 1751 at
East
  Dean in Sussex. His father was a
wood
 -cutter employed in shaping bolts for ship-builders, and the son followed the same occupation till his seventeenth year, when, having shown an aptitude for art by copying some miniatures with exceptional accuracy, he was befriended by William Mitford, upon whose estate the elder Sherwin worked, and was sent to study in London, first under John Astley, and then for three years under Bartolozzifor whom he is believed to have executed a large portion of the plate of Clytie, after Annibal Caracci, published as the
work
  of his master. He was entered as a student of the Royal Academy, and gained a silver medal, and in 1772 a gold medal for his painting of " Coriolanus taking Leave of his Family." From 1774 till 178o he was an exhibitor of chalk drawings and of engravings in the Royal Academy. Establishing himself in St James's Street as a painter, designer and engraver, he speedily attained popularity and began to mix in fashionable society. His drawing of the " Finding of Moses," a
work
  of but slight artistic merit, which introduced portraits of the princess royal of England and other leading ladies of the aristocracy, hit the public taste, and, as reproduced by his burin, sold largely. In 1785 he succeeded Woollett as engraver to the king, and he also held the appointment of engraver to the prince of Wales. His professional income rose to about I2,000 a year; but he was constantly in pecuniary difficulties, for he was shiftless, indolent, and without method, open-handed and even prodigal in his benefactionsand prodigal, too, in less reputable directions, for he became a reckless gambler, and habits of intemperance grew upon him. He died in extreme penury on the 24th of September 179oaccording to
Steevens
 , the editor of Shakespeare, at " The Hog in the Pound," an obscure alehouse in Swallow Street, or, as stated by his pupil J. T.
Smith
 , in the
house
  of Robert Wilkinson, a printseller in Cornhill.
I t is as an engraver that Sherwin is most esteemed; and it may be noted that he was ambidexterous, working indifferently with either hand upon his plates. His drawing is correct, his line excellent and his textures are varied and intelligent in expression. Such of his plates as the " Holy Family " after Nicholas Poussin, " Christ Bearing the Cross " after
Murillo
 , the portrait of the marquis of Buckingham after
Gainsborough
  and that of Pitt occupy a high place among the productions of the English school of line-engravers. He also worked after Pine, Dance and Kauffman.


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