Benjamin Ferrers

Benjamin Ferrers (–1732) was an English portrait painter.

Life The Court of Chancery during the reign of George I by Benjamin Ferrers (National Portrait Gallery, London). Christened in late 1667 in Cookham, Berkshire, Ferrers was deaf from his birth and appears to have lived in Westminster. He was related to William Beveridge, bishop of St. Asaph. but following his death at Westminster on 5 March 1706–7, Ferrers painted one from his corpse. The picture, which is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, was engraved by William Sherwin (both in mezzotint and line), by Michael van der Gucht as a frontispiece to Beveridge's works, and by Trotter.

Ferrers painted a portrait of Thomas Cockman, Master of University College, Oxford, his brother John Cockman, and five Fellows of the college. The painting remained in the Cockham family until 2008, when it was auctioned at Sotheby's and acquired by University College.

Ferrers died in 1732; a Latin panegyric on him was written by his friend, Vincent Bourne, of Westminster School.