Edward Prentis

Prentis first exhibited in 1823, at the Royal Academy, sending A Girl with Matches and A Boy with Oranges. His works for the Society of British Artists included such subjects as The Profligate's Return from the Alehouse, 1829; Valentine's Eve, 1835; The Wife and The Daughter, 1836 (engraved, as a pair, by John Charles Bromley, 1837); and A Day's Pleasure, 1841 (engraved). The Folly of Extravagance, 1850, was the last picture he exhibited.^[1]

Prentis also executed for the British Museum a series of drawings of the ivory objects and bronze bowls found at Nimrud. Some were engraved on wood by John Thompson, and published in Austen Henry Layard's Monuments of Nineveh (1849). He donated some Old Master drawings to the museum.^[2]

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Prentis, Edward". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 46. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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