Edward Prentis

[1] In 1825 Prentis contributed three pictures to the first exhibition of the Society of British Artists, of which, in the following year, he was elected a member.

From that time he was a steady supporter of the society, and all his works were shown in the Suffolk Street gallery.

[1] Prentis first exhibited in 1823, at the Royal Academy, sending A Girl with Matches and A Boy with Oranges.

[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).