made from his original watercolours, to have been published in instalments and sold by subscription, but eight years after this intention was first announced in the local press, the engravings were published together. The engravings, which almost definitely were produced in response to Ladbrooke's Views of the Churches of Norfolk, accurately depict the important buildings of Norwich. Sillett may have travelled to Rotterdam and Leiden, which he depicted in several landscapes. In later life he ceased to have any influence on the more forward-looking artists of the Norwich School of painters. He was quoted when an old man as saying "Existence would no longer be desirable when deprived of the use of my pencil". He is said to have been at work six hours before he died at his home in Norwich on 6 May 1840. He was buried in the Rosary Cemetery, a short distance from the city: an artist's palette can be seen at the top of his headstone.. His obituary was published in the Norfolk Chronicle. In his will, dated 31 July 1839, he left his family £300. Family In 1801 he married Ann Banyard of East Dereham, through whom he became possessed of some property. Of their five children, three died in infancy. Their daughter Emma became well known as a flower-painter, and also painted animals, fruit and shells. Emma Sillett and her father were the only contemporaries of Emily Stannard who could rival her. Her artistic ability enabled her to assist her father in her teaching from 1817, but little else is known of her life or artistic career. Her brother James Banyard Sillett (born in 1809) did not follow his father's profession but became a languages teacher. Emma and James Banyard lived together in Norfolk: Emma died unmarried on 27 January 1880 at the age of seventy-seven, and her brother died unmarried aged ninety. Reputation Sillett has generally received praise from art critics and historians. The historian William Dickes, writing in 1905, described Sillett as a careful artist and a technically skilled draughtsman. Sillett's still life paintings are considered to be his best work, in both watercolour and oils. According to the art historian Josephine Walpole, some experts rank him with William Jackson Hooker, an artist who was able to combine accuracy with charm. Sillett's botanical paintings, which were often used for book illustrations, show great skill in depicting transparency in petals. The art