Henry William Brewer

Henry William Brewer (7 August 1836 – 6 October 1903) was a British illustrator, notable for his detailed city panoramas, held to be one of the most outstanding architectural draughtsmen of his day.

His school fellows included the clinician and physiologist Sydney Ringer, the orientalist Professor Robert Lubbock Bensly, the architect Edward Boardman and Brewer's cousin, John Odin Howard Taylor.

[3] Brewer later continued his art studies under William Warren and the prominent painter George Clarkson Stanfield.

His early professional was chiefly drawings of medieval buildings in Germany, where he was living, noteworthy for their individual and masterly sense of composition, detail and the breadth of light and shade.

Most significant among these was a commission from Queen Victoria in 1869, for whom he executed number of water colour paintings of her Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore, her resting place for Albert, Prince Consort and herself.

The Pall Mall Gazette article records in 1871 that "the programme for the new term at the Working Men's College, 45, Great Ormond-street, has just been issued.

[4][3] He also wrote for The Girl's Own Paper between 1889 and 1901, where subjects included Interesting Monuments of Distinguished Women (1889),[12] The Castle of Cleve and the 'Magic Swan' (1890),[13] The Largest Churches in Europe (1891),[14] Archeology for Girls (1895),[15] Typical Church Towers of English Counties (1895),[16] Old English Cottage Homes (1899),[17] and Site Base Support and Superstructure – Ancient and Modern Methods of Building (1901).