William Hatherell (18 October 1855, in Bristol – 7 December 1928, in London) was a British painter and illustrator who worked in the genres including historical painting, Arthurian legend, and sentimentalism.
He became a member of the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, in 1903, and of the American Society of Illustrators in 1905.
[1][2] Hatherell illustrated a variety of books, making 22 watercolours for Hodder's edition of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
[5][6] He travelled to Australia on a commission from Cassell's to create illustrations for their 1890 book Picturesque Australasia.
He returned to live in Brondesbury in northwest London, creating a garden that often forms the background in his paintings of the period.