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Sherwin was one of the early practitioners of mezzotint, a technique he learned from Prince Rupert. He dedicated to the Prince a pair of large portraits of
Charles II and his queen engraved using the method; the former of these is dated 1669, the earliest found on an English mezzotint. Among his
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Between 1670 and 1711 he engraved in the line style a number of portraits. These comprise large plates of
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other mezzotint plates are portraits of the Duke of
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