Daniel Sherrin The Elder (1868 - 1940) Landscape with figure. Oil on board. Sight Size: 9.5 x 10.5 inches. Signed 'L. Richards' lower right. It is also accepted that as well as painting under his own name Daniel Sherrin, he occasionally painted under the pseudonym of 'L Richards' and 'Horace Gallon'. Sherrin studied under his father and became a pupil of B.W. Leader, the well known landscape artist and a member of the "Williams" family. He lived for a while on the East Coast of England near Whitstable and although primarily a landscape artist, he also painted along the shores of Suffolk and Norfolk. His paintings were often used for book illustrations and a scene titled In the Highlands, depicting highland cattle by a loch, can be seen in a book titled British Highways and Byways from a Motor Car, by Thomas D. Murphy, which was published in 1908. He was commissioned by King George V. to paint Sandringham and this painting still hangs in Buckingham Palace. During the first World War he did valuable work on the design of posters in connection with recruitment for Kitchener's Army and this work is in the archives of the Imperial War museum.