Henry Inglis Godsell Sheldon-Williams was born in Elvetham, Surrey, England, in 1870. He came to Canada in 1886, settling at Cannington Manor, Saskatchewan. In 1896, he returned to England to study at the British Museum, the Slade School, and later at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris. He fought and was wounded in the Boer War. In 1913, he returned to Canada where he taught art for a short time at the Regina College. During his Regina years, he received many commissions for portraits and landscapes and painted for the Canadian War Memorials. About 1920, he returned to England. He was a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and had a fellowship in the Royal Society of Arts. He died in Kent, England, in 1940.
