Alfred J. Skrimshire, born in 1872, was a British printmaker who specialized in mezzotints that reproduced paintings by J. M. W. Turner, Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, Edward Robert King, Franz Xaver, and many other noted painters. Printmaking was yet to be used as a creative medium when Skrimshire was producing his mezzotints. Some bear the blindstamps of the PDOF which is that of the British Printsellers Association. This organization was established in the late 19^th century to regulate the print trade and protect artists from forgeries and reproductions.

Skrimshire’s work was included in “The Artist Engraver: A Quarterly Magazine of Original Work,” Nos. 1-4 (1904) which contained twenty plates by various printmakers. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1899.

Alfred J. Skrimshire died in 1927.