John Jewell Penstone (1817–1902) was a portrait and genre artist who worked with paint, but is known mainly for his engravings, and has been associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

The National Portrait Gallery in London holds two of his stipple engravings, along with a lithograph (printed by Nosworthy & Wells) his family who now lives in Birmingham, England holds the original painting of their great grandfather, an officer in the British Army.

[2] He was involved in some of the religious controversies which caused splits in the Brethren movement during his lifetime, and by the death of his second wife he was disappointed with the way some members had behaved.

[3] In 1850 Penstone moved from Chelsea in London to Stanford in the Vale where his father and both grandfathers had been born.

[10] He also wrote some poetry inclining Servant of Christ,[11] and a book of poems and illustrations titled Songs of Salvation and Records of Christian Life (1876).