When did Edward Greene Malbone live?

Edward Greene Malbone lived from 1777 to 1807.

What movement was Edward Greene Malbone part of?

Edward Greene Malbone was part of the Romanticism movement.

Where can I see paintings by Edward Greene Malbone?

Paintings by Edward Greene Malbone are held by Metropolitan Museum of Art and Cleveland Museum of Art.

Edward Greene Malbone · Paintings, Biography & Famous Works

American, 1777–1807

Edward Greene Malbone was an American Romanticism painter. 17 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them watercolors. Edward Greene Malbone was born in Newport.

Edward Greene Malbone (1777 – May 7, 1807) was an American painter, and the most sought-after miniaturist of his day. He was an influence on other artists including Charles Fraser, William Dunlap and John Wesley Jarvis. Edward Greene Malbone was born at Newport, Rhode Island and began his career in Providence at the age of seventeen, later working in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Charleston and London.

Exacting and unceasing work undermined his constitution and following an attempt to recover his health in Jamaica, he came to Savannah and died there of tuberculosis at the home of his cousin, Robert Mackay, on May 7, 1807. He is buried in Savannah's Colonial Park Cemetery.