William Berryman

He produced over three hundred pencil sketches and watercolours of the Jamaican landscape and the daily lives of the island's people.

His work demonstrates particular interest in the lives of the island's majority inhabitants: enslaved people of African and mixed descent.

He planned a project of making an engraving series based upon his Jamaican artwork, but died before he could undertake it.

[4] It is unknown exactly when Berryman arrived in Jamaica, but there is evidence he sought the patronage of Edward Beeston Long, son of wealthy Jamaican plantation owner Edward Long, and a dated illustration places Berryman in Jamaica by May 1808.

[5] Berryman's unpublished work was neglected until it was rediscovered in an album acquired by the United States Library of Congress.