Henry Perronet Briggs

While still at school in Epping he sent two engravings to the Gentleman's Magazine and in 1811 he entered as a student at the Royal Academy, London, where he began to exhibit in 1814.

From that time onwards until his death he was a constant exhibitor at the annual exhibitions of the Academy, as well as the British Institution, his paintings being for the most part historical in subject.

The lease to his home in Bruton Street, Berkeley Square was subsequently purchased by the portrait painter Thomas Henry Illidge.

Jacob Bell, founder of the Pharmaceutical Society, was a cousin of Briggs, and took painting lessons from the artist as a child.

Two of Briggs' historical pictures, first exhibited at the Academy in 1826 and 1827, are now in Tate Britain, London – First Conference between the Spaniards and Peruvians, 1531,[5] and Juliet and her Nurse.