Edwin Forbes
Edwin Forbes (* 1839 in New York ; † March 6, 1895 in Flatbush , Brooklyn , New York ) was an American history , landscape and animal painter who also worked as an etcher .
Forbes began to devote himself to art when he was 19, initially to animal painting, where he became a student of the English animal painter Arthur Tait , who moved to North America in 1850 .
After the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the Potomac Army, then stayed in the south from 1862 to 1864 as a specialist artist for the bookseller Frank Leslie , creating a multitude of battle scenes and pictures of historical interest.
On his return to New York, he exhibited a picture from the battles in the wilderness (May 5 to 7, 1864) in the academy there, which was widely acclaimed. Even later he still painted war pictures from time to time, but after the end of the war he devoted himself more to painting landscapes and depicting domestic animals.
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| SURNAME | Forbes, Edwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American history, landscape, and animal painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1895 |
| Place of death | Flatbush , Brooklyn , New York |