Edwin Long
Edwin Longsden Long (born July 12, 1829 in Bath , † May 15, 1891 in Hampstead ) was an English genre, history, Bible, nude and portrait painter.
Edwin Long attended Charles Viner's School in Bath. He then went to London and studied there from 1849 at the private painting school of James Mathews Leigh (1808-1860). Two attempts to be accepted into the Royal Academy Schools failed. After a stay in Italy in 1848 he went back to Bath and worked there as a portrait painter.
In 1857 he went back to London, where he met the painter John Phillip (1817–1867) and accompanied him to Spain, where they spent a lot of time. Long was heavily influenced by the paintings of Velásquez and other Spanish masters, and his early paintings were painted under Spanish influence. Until 1873 he made further trips to Spain. In 1874 he visited Egypt and Syria . He became acquainted with the archeology of the Middle East and began painting scenes from ancient Egypt as well as oriental scenes. With these pictures he achieved his breakthrough in 1875 at the exhibition of the Royal Academy.
Long was elected an associate member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1876 and a full member (Royal Academician) in 1881. George Clausen (1852–1944) was one of his students .
Many of his works have been reproduced in the form of copperplate engravings. From 1883 he exhibited his pictures in his own gallery on Bond Street . He portrayed people from the London elite, a. a. Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts and Cardinal Henry Edward Manning . The commercial success of his works prompted him to repeat successful motifs over and over again.
Lieutenant-Colonel George James Mouat MacDowell
The Babylonian Marriage Market (1875)
Mary Dickinson
Finding of Moses (1886)
Follower of the goddess Isis
literature
- General artist lexicon. Lives and works of the most famous visual artists , revised and updated editions, prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer. Volume 3, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1898, p. 33 ( digitized version ).
- Lionel Henry Cust: Long, Edwin Longsden . In: Dictionary of National Biography , Volume 34, 1893, pp. 101-102.
- Long, Edwin . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 352 .
- Mark Bills: Edwin Longsden Long RA. Cygnus Arts, London 1998, ISBN 1-900541-55-6 .
- Steffen Egle: Long, Edwin . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 85, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023190-8 , p. 228.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Long, Edwin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Longsden Long, Edwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bath |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1891 |
| Place of death | Hampstead |