George Sheringham

George Sheringham studied at The King's School, Gloucester. The recorded working language is English. Work by George Sheringham is recorded in the collections of Auckland Art Gallery, Tate, National Gallery of Canada, Victoria and Albert Museum and Laing Art Gallery. Distinctions recorded are Royal Designer for Industry.

• Illustration — Frontispiece to Canadian Wonder Tales, 1917 Sheringham was born in London, the son of an Anglican clergyman, the Rev. Harry Alsager Sheringham, Rector of Christ Church, Marylebone, and had a brother, Hugh, who became the Angling Editor of The Field. He was educated at the King's School, Gloucester, the Slade School of Fine Art (1899–1901), and the Sorbonne, Paris (1904–1906).

• Illustration — The Panel of the Mabinogi (watercolour and gouache on silk) As a decorator, Sheringham designed the music room at 40 Devonshire House, London; a series of paintings for Seaford House, London, for the 8th Baron Howard de Walden (also Baron Seaford) to illustrate his Celtic poem, The Cauldron of Anwn; the ballroom at Claridge's Hotel; and the Paris Exhibition of 1937. He also created commercial designs used in home decorations. When, in 1936, the Royal Society of Arts established the prestigious Royal Designers for Industry distinction, Sheringham was one of its first recipients in 1937. Sheringham also became known as a designer of fans.

Sheringham designed scenery and costumes for ballets, opera and straight theatre including The Clandestine Marriage, The Skin Game, The Lady of the Camellias, Othello, Love in a Village, Derby Day, The Duenna, and the Stratford Memorial Theatre's opening production of Twelfth Night, and Hamlet. In the theatre he worked closely with the actor-manager Nigel Playfair. For D’Oyly Carte, he designed new productions of H.M.S. Pinafore (1929); The Pirates of Penzance (1929); Patience (1929, with other designs contributed by Hugo Rumbold); Trial by Jury (costumes only) and Iolanthe (costumes only, 1932).

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