William Berryman
William Berryman was an English artist who was active in
watercolours of the Jamaican landscape and the daily lives of the island's people. His work demonstrates particular interest in the lives of the island's majority inhabitants: enslaved people of African and mixed descent. He planned a project of making an engraving series based upon his Jamaican artwork, but died before he could undertake it.[1]
Berryman's life is not well documented. In the early 1800s he lived with his brother John on
Edward Long, and a dated illustration places Berryman in Jamaica by May 1808.[5]
Berryman's unpublished work was neglected until it was rediscovered in an album acquired by the
Bristol, England, in 2007 and 2008.[6]
References
- ^ a b Reilly, Bernard (1995). "Portfolio 4: The World at Large: Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain". Library of Congress Prints and Photographs: An Illustrated Guide. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
- ^ Newman 2016, p. 86.
- ^ Graves, Algernon (1905). The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their Work from its Foundation in 1769 to 1904. Vol. I. London: Henry Graves and Co. p. 186.
- ^ Newman 2016, p. 89.
- ^ Newman 2016, pp. 90–92.
- ^ "Plantain Walk – Bookkeeper – Watchman and Hut – man with casks of water / greattoe in stirrup". Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
- Newman, Rachel Grace (2016). Conjuring Cane: The Art of William Berryman and Caribbean Sugar Plantations (PhD thesis). Stanford University.
External links
Media related to William Berryman at Wikimedia Commons
