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William Berryman - Planting corn. Old driver. Planting corn. House Negro digging corn holes

Planting corn. Old driver. Planting corn. House Negro digging corn holes (1808-1816)

William Berryman (English, 19th Century)
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William Berryman was an English artist who was active in Jamaica during the period 1808–1816. He produced over three hundred pencil sketches and 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.

Berryman's life is not well documented. In the early 1800s he lived with his brother John on Great Portland Street, London, and both of them exhibited art in the 1802 exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts. William and John later contributed woodblock illustrations to John Thomas Smith's Antiquities of Westminster (1807). It is unknown exactly when Berryman arrived in Jamaica, but there is evidence he sought the patronage of Edward Beeston Long, son of wealthy Jamaican plantation owner Edward Long, and a dated illustration places Berryman in Jamaica by May 1808.

Berryman's unpublished work was neglected until it was rediscovered in an album acquired by the United States Library of Congress. His work was exhibited at the Yale University Center for British Art at New Haven, Connecticut, United States and at the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum in Bristol, England, in 2007 and 2008.

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Negro hut with figures in plantain walk

Negro hut with figures in plantain walk (1808-1816)

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Driver, cold morning

Driver, cold morning (1808-1816)

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Negro portraits, 16 small drawings with notations

Negro portraits, 16 small drawings with notations (1808-1816)

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Piazza & stairs at 4 paths, 2 negro children at work, Jamaica

Piazza & stairs at 4 paths, 2 negro children at work, Jamaica (1808-1816)

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Fishpot of split bamboo, in foreground at Brailsford’s, Jamaica

Fishpot of split bamboo, in foreground at Brailsford’s, Jamaica (1808-1816)

William Berryman (English, 19th Century)
Ludlow – Clarendon Mountains, McLean att’y, Murray overseer, Murdoc engineer. Steam engine when first erected

Ludlow – Clarendon Mountains, McLean att’y, Murray overseer, Murdoc engineer. Steam engine when first erected (1815)

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Negro wench dancing, Maverly, in white muslin

Negro wench dancing, Maverly, in white muslin (1808-1816)

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Digging corn holes. La Duchesse [woman seated in window]

Digging corn holes. La Duchesse [woman seated in window] (1808-1816)

William Berryman (English, 19th Century)
Longville ford, the first from Longs Wharf to Chapelton, Clarendon Mountn

Longville ford, the first from Longs Wharf to Chapelton, Clarendon Mountn (1808-1816)

William Berryman (English, 19th Century)
Negro man carrying plantains on pole

Negro man carrying plantains on pole (1808-1816)

William Berryman (English, 19th Century)
Longville, Jamaica

Longville, Jamaica (1808-1816)

William Berryman (English, 19th Century)
Eight small drawings, inclulding portrait, figure studies, carts

Eight small drawings, inclulding portrait, figure studies, carts (1808-1816)

William Berryman (English, 19th Century)
Sugar estate

Sugar estate (1808-1816)

William Berryman (English, 19th Century)
Four Jamaican figures talking at a fence

Four Jamaican figures talking at a fence (1808-1816)

William Berryman (English, 19th Century)
Plantain Walk – Bookkeeper – Watchman and Hut – man with casks of water

Plantain Walk – Bookkeeper – Watchman and Hut – man with casks of water (1808-1816)

William Berryman (English, 19th Century)
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