Edwin Long - Wikipedia Edwin Long From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search British painter This article may be in need of reorganization to comply with Wikipedia's layout guidelines. Please help by editing the article to make improvements to the overall structure. (March 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Edwin Long Born Edwin Longsden Long (1829-07-12)12 July 1829 Bath, Somersetshire, England Died 15 May 1891(1891-05-15) (aged 61) Hampstead, England Nationality English Education James Mathews Leigh, London Known for Painter Movement Orientalist Edwin Longsden Long RA (12 July 1829 – 15 May 1891) was a British genre, history, biblical and portrait painter. Contents 1 Life and works 2 Paintings 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Life and works[edit] Queen Esther (1878) Long was born in Bath, Somerset, the son of James Long, a hairdresser, (from Kelston in Somerset), and was educated at Dr. Viner's School in Bath. Adopting the profession of a painter, Long came to London and studied in the British Museum. He was subsequently a pupil in the school of James Mathews Leigh in Newman Street London, and practised first as a portrait artist painting Charles Greville, Lord Ebury and others. Long made the acquaintance of John Phillip RA, and accompanied him to Spain, where they spent much time. Long was greatly influenced by the paintings of Velasquez and other Spanish masters, and his earlier pictures, such as La Posada (1864) and Lazarilla and the blind beggar (1870), were painted under Spanish influence. His first important pictures were The Suppliants (1872) and The Babylonian marriage market (both subsequently purchased by Thomas Holloway). In 1874, he visited Egypt and Syria, and subsequently his work took a new direction. He became thoroughly imbued with middle-eastern archaeology and painted oriental scenes including The Egyptian Feast (1877), The Gods and their makers (1878). Long was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1870 and an academician (RA) in 1881. His pictures always attracted attention and his Diana or Christ? (1881) greatly enhanced his reputation at the time. His pictures suited the taste and appealed to the religious sentiment of a large portion of the public, and their popularity was increased by a wide circulation of engravings. He consequently determined to exhibit his next pictures in a separate gallery of his own in Bond Street, London and there in 1883, and the following years, his Anno Domini and Zeuxis at Crotona met with great commercial success. The Finding of Moses (1886) Long died from pneumonia resulting from influenza, at his home, "Kelston" in Netherhall Gardens, Hampstead, on 15 May 1891, in his sixty-second year. He was buried in West Hampstead Cemetery. The will signed by him on the day of his death was the subject of a lawsuit, to which his relatives were parties, but the matter in dispute was amicably settled.[1] Long married a daughter of Dr. William Aiton, by whom he left a family, of whom a son, Maurice Long, was killed in a railway accident at Burgos in Spain on 23 September 1891. Besides the Edwin Long Gallery in Old Bond Street, a number of his pictures was collected together after his death, and formed the nucleus of a gallery of Christian Art which replaced the works of Gustave Doré in the well-known gallery in New Bond Street. Long had considerable practice as a portrait painter but his success in that line was not conspicuous, although he obtained high patronage and very large prices. He painted for the Baroness Burdett Coutts (his chief patron) portraits of herself, her friend Mrs. Brown, and Henry Irving. Among other portraits of his latter years were a memorial portrait of the Earl of Iddesleigh, of which he painted a replica for the National Portrait Gallery, portraits of Cardinal Manning (perhaps his best effort in this line), Samuel Cousins, Sir Edmund Henderson and others. According to art historian Lionel Cust, "In his earlier works Long showed great power and thoroughly deserved his success and popularity", but added that his later works "suffered from a continual repetition of types which resulted in monotony". The Babylonian Marriage Market Paintings[edit] Begging for the Monastery (1867) The Suppliants (1864) Uncle Tom and Little Eva (1866) A Spanish Flower Seller (1867) The Gamekeeper (1869) "Usted Gusta" (1870) A Question of Propriety (1870) A Street Scene in Spain (1871) The Approval (1873) The Moorish proselytes of Archbishop Ximines (1873) Primero Segundo y Basso Profondo (1873) The Babylonian Marriage Market (1875) A Dorcas Meeting in the 6th Century (1873–1877) 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) Diana or Christ? (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) Little Eva and Uncle Tom (1886) See also[edit] List of Orientalist artists Orientalism References[edit] ^ (Times, 13 and 14 Dec. 1892). Attribution  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Long, Edwin Longsden". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Edwin Long. 66 paintings by or after Edwin Long at the Art UK site Edwin Long online (ArtCyclopedia) Edwin Long biography Biography + paintings (ArtMagick) Biography and works (Art Renewal Center) Long's portrait works (National Portrait Gallery, London) Love's Labour Lost (1885 oil on canvas - Dahesh Museum of Art) Authority control BNF: cb135118274 (data) GND: 120999048 ISNI: 0000 0000 6681 4681 LCCN: n98047563 NGV: 1089 RKD: 50715 SNAC: w60g6m62 SUDOC: 050384058 ULAN: 500007608 VIAF: 30381624 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n98047563 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edwin_Long&oldid=982995934" Categories: 1829 births 1891 deaths 19th-century English painters Artists' Rifles soldiers English male painters British genre painters English romantic painters English portrait painters English orientalists Orientalist painters Royal Academicians Deaths from the 1889–1890 flu pandemic 19th-century male artists Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Use dmy dates from October 2019 Wikipedia articles needing reorganization from March 2017 Articles with hCards Articles incorporating Cite DNB template Articles incorporating DNB text with Wikisource reference Commons category link is on Wikidata Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NGV identifiers Wikipedia articles with RKDartists identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with ULAN identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages Čeština Cymraeg Deutsch Español Euskara Français Italiano עברית Polski Português Русский Slovenčina Suomi Українська Edit links This page was last edited on 11 October 2020, at 16:48 (UTC). 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