Career
Born into a family of artists, he was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in 1840. He did some book illustrations for the works of John Milton and Edgar Allan Poe. Pickersgill"s The Burial of Harold was accepted as a decoration for the Houses of Parliament in 1847.
He also did some landscapes under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites.
In 1856 Pickersgill was photographed at The Photography Institute by Robert Howlett, as part of a series of portraits of artists. The picture was among a group exhibited at the Art Treasures Exhibition in Manchester in 1857.
