James Sargant Storer


James Sargant Storer was an English draughtsman and engraver.

Life

Storer was born in 1771, and devoted himself to the production of works on topography and ancient architecture, the plates in which he drew and engraved himself on a small scale. From 1814 James Storer worked wholly in conjunction with his eldest son Henry, whom he outlived. He died at his house at Islington on 23 December 1853, and was buried beside his son at St. James's Chapel, Pentonville.

Works

For some years he was associated with John Greig, another topographical artist. In collaboration they published:
He was one of the artists employed on John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley's Beauties of England and Wales, 1801–1816.

Family

The eldest son, Henry Sargant Storer was also an engraver, and produced with his father: