Edwin Long

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Edwin Longsden Long RA (1829 – 1891) was an English painter.

Long was born in Bath, Somerset and died 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)
• 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)
• 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)

[edit] External links

• Edwin Long biography
• Art Renewal Center biography/list
• Spanish biography/list
• Phryne's list of pictures by Long in the Russell-Cotes and other accessible UK collections