Artist

Edward Bird

Portrait of Edward Bird
Portrait of Edward Bird

British, 1772–1819

Edward Bird was a British Romanticism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum. Edward Bird was born in Wolverhampton.

Edward Bird (1772 – 2 November 1819) was an English genre painter who spent most of his working life in Bristol, where the Bristol School of artists formed around him. He enjoyed a few years of popularity in London, where he challenged the dominance of Sir David Wilkie in the genre painting field, before moving on to history painting, specialising in battle scenes.

Works by Edward Bird

Collections represented

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