John Keyse Sherwin after Sir Joshua Reynolds

[Reynolds, Self-Portrait]

10 x 12 inches

John Sherwin (1751-1790) was an eminent stipple engraver of portraits, decorative and historical subjects after his contemporaries. He was born into a peasant family in Devon, succeeded in gaining admission to the Royal Academy schools but led a dissolute life and sadly died in poverty in London in 1790.