Painter in oil and watercolour, born in Derby, England, where he studied at the School of Art, later attending Heatherley’s Art School, under Henry Massey, in 1920. Sherwin, a rather military figure, became a member of Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolors in 1950 and RSMA in 1967, last exhibiting there in 1981. He also showed at Royal Academy of Arts, London, and elsewhere. The Derby Museum and Art Gallery holds his work. Sherwin was widely reproduced by Frost & Reed Ltd, British Railways and the Medici Society. ('Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman)