Benjamin Ferrers was mainly a portrait painter but his earliest known signed picture is a still-life--'Plant in a china pot' (Newbattle Abbey). He was deaf and a subscriber to Kneller's Academy 1711. Some rather clumsy portraits and conversation pieces (dates ranging from 1708, engraved 'Bp. Beveridge,' to 1728) are known in a style faintly suggestive of Dahl. The artist died in 1732.
