Edwin Long
Edwin Long | |
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Born | Edwin Longsden Long 12 July 1829 Bath, Somersetshire, England |
Died | 15 May 1891 Hampstead, England | (aged 61)
Nationality | English |
Education | James Mathews Leigh, London |
Known for | Painter |
Movement | Orientalist |
Edwin Longsden Long RA (12 July 1829 – 15 May 1891) was a British genre, history, biblical and portrait painter.
Life and works
Long was born in Bath, Somerset, the son of James Long, a hairdresser, (from Kelston in Somerset), and was educated at Dr. Viner's School in Bath. Adopting the profession of a painter, Long came to London and studied in the British Museum. He was subsequently a pupil in the school of James Mathews Leigh in Newman Street London, and practised first as a portrait artist painting Charles Greville, Lord Ebury and others.
Long made the acquaintance of
Long was elected an associate of the
Long died from
Long married a daughter of Dr. William Aiton, by whom he left a family, of whom a son, Maurice Long, was killed in a railway accident at Burgos in Spain on 23 September 1891.
Besides the Edwin Long Gallery in Old Bond Street, a number of his pictures was collected together after his death, and formed the nucleus of a gallery of Christian Art which replaced the works of
Paintings
- Begging for the Monastery (1867)
- The Suppliants (1864)
- Uncle Tom and Little Eva (1866)
- A Spanish Flower Seller (1867)
- The Gamekeeper (1869)
- "Usted Gusta" (1870)
- A Question of Propriety (1870)
- A Street Scene in Spain (1871)
- The Approval (1873)
- The Moorish Proselytes of Archbishop Ximines (1873)
- Primero Segundo y Basso Profondo (1873)
- The Babylonian Marriage Market (1875)
- In the Tent (1876)
- A Dorcas Meeting in the 6th Century(1873–1877)
- An Egyptian Feast (1877)
- The Gods and Their Makers (1878)
- Queen Esther (1878)
- Vashti Refuses the King's Summons (1879)
- The Eastern Favourite (1880)
- To Her Listening Ear Responsive Chords of Music Came Familiar (1881)
- Diana or Christ? (1881)
- Anno Domini (1883)
- Glauke: Pensive (1883)
- The Chosen Five (1885)
- Eastern Lily (1885)
- Jepthah's Vow: the Martyr (1885)
- Love's Labour Lost (1885)
- The Finding of Moses (1886)
- Alethe Attendant of the Sacred Ibis in the Temple of Isis (1888)
- Sacred to Pasht (1888)
- Preparing For The Festival Of Anubis (1889)
- Thisbe (1884)
- Little Eva and Uncle Tom (1886)
See also
References
- ^ (Times, 13 and 14 Dec. 1892).
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Long, Edwin Longsden". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
External links
- 66 artworks by or after Edwin Long at the Art UK site
- Edwin Long online (ArtCyclopedia)
- Edwin Long biography Archived 23 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine
- Biography + paintings (ArtMagick)
- Biography and works (Art Renewal Center)
- Long's portrait works (National Portrait Gallery, London)
- Love's Labour Lost (1885 oil on canvas - Dahesh Museum of Art)
- The Chosen Five, 1885 painting analysis