Artware Fineart has dated this Victorian Clergyman Oil Painting to the 19th Century.
Portrait of a Gentleman in Clerical Dress
1st April 1875
Oil on Canvas
124 x 98 cm. (49 x 39 in.)
Eden was born in Newington Green in 1812, his brother Edward became a hymn writer.
Eden enrolled at the Royal Academy schools in 1828. From the age of 25 until he was nearly 70 his work was regularly exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1837 and 1881, and is best known for his portraits, which included many of well-known people; the National Portrait Gallery in London holds a drawing of him by Walker Hodgson.
Among the subjects of his portraits were the historian Lord Macaulay, Archbishop Sumner, the essayist and fashionable cleric Sydney Smith, the sculptor Francis Leggatt Chantrey and Peter Mark Roget the compiler of the original thesaurus.[3] He died in 1901 at Shalford near Guildford.
Artware Fineart has dated this Victorian Clergyman Oil Painting to the 19th Century.
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Eden Upton Eddis, 1812 - 1901 Portrait of a Gentleman in Clerical Dress
