SHERIFF, George 1846–1930

Wanganui painter and sculptor. Born Brighton, England: educated Rusthall Manor, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Studied art at Melbourne Hurst, at the West London School of Art, and at the Slade School of Animal Painting, London. Arrived New Zealand probably c.1883 and became an early settler farmer in the Wanganui district. Exhibited with the Fine Arts Assoc Wtn 1883–84; NZ Industrial Ex Wtn 1885; ASA 1886; Centennial Ex, Melbourne 1888–89; NZ Academy of Fine Arts intermittently from 1890. Listed as Wanganui artist 1896–97 and 1900, and as ‘Sheriff's Studio’ 1911–13 Wise's. A founding member of the Wanganui Arts and Crafts Society, elected to the first committee 20 July 1901. Represented: Wanganui Public Library (portraits); Sarjeant, Turnbull.