John Jewell Penstone

John Jewell Penstone
Born1817 
Died1902  (aged 84–85)
OccupationPainter 

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. Ash Penstone is now the only remaining person who carries the original Penstone name.