Edwin Long

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Edwin Long was a British painter who was born in Bath in 1829 and died in 1891 of pneumonia. He was an orientalist, depicting Biblical and Middle Eastern subjects with astute accuracy, and a romanticist. In 1854, under the advice of the artist John Phillip, he travelled abroad to Spain, and later to Egypt and Syria. This inspired him to create his more lucrative paintings, such as The Babylonian Marriage Market.

[edit] Paintings

• The Suppliants (1864)
• A Spanish Flower Seller (1867)
• The Gamekeeper (1869)
• A Street Scene in Spain (1871)
• The Approval (1873)
• The Moorish proselytes of Archbishop Ximines (1873)
• The Babylonian Marriage Market (1875)
• An Egyptian Feast (1877)
• The Gods and their Makers (1878)
• The Eastern Favourite (1880)
• To Her Listening Ear Responsive Chords of Music Came Familiar (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)
• 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)

[edit] External links

• Edwin Long biography
• Art Renewal Center biography/list
• Spanish biography/list
• List of hist work at the Russel-Cotes Gallery