Eden Upton Eddis
British painter
Eden Upton Eddis
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1891 portrait of Eden Upton Eddis by William Walker Hodgson
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9 May 1812
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7 April 1901
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Nationality | British |
Eden Upton Eddis (9 May 1812 – 7 April 1901) was a British portrait artist.
Life
Eden was born in Newington Green in 1812, his brother Edward became a hymn writer. [1]
Eden enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools in 1828. [2] From the age of 25 until he was nearly 70 his work was regularly exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1837 and 1881, [3] and is best known for his portraits, which included many of well-known people; the National Portrait Gallery in London holds a drawing of him by Walker Hodgson .
Among the subjects of his portraits were the historian Lord Macaulay , Bishop Charles James Blomfield , Archbishop Sumner , the essayist and fashionable cleric Sydney Smith , the sculptor Francis Leggatt Chantrey and Peter Mark Roget the compiler of the original thesaurus . [3] He died in 1901 at Shalford near Guildford.
Legacy
Eddis has over 100 works in the National Portrait Gallery [3] and 30 paintings in public collections in the United Kingdom. [4]
References
- ↑ Edward Wilton Eddis , Cyberhymnal.org, retrieved 25 October 2014
- ↑ some history and images , National Portrait Gallery
- 1 2 3 Eden Upton Eddis , National Portrait Gallery
- ↑ 35 artworks by or after Eden Upton Eddis at the Art UK site
External links
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Media related to Eden Upton Eddis at Wikimedia Commons
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