Edward Bird

For the Canadian legal figure, see J. Edward Bird. For the Anglo-Indian judge, see Edward Wheler Bird. For the English pipemaker in Amsterdam, see Eduard Bird.

Edward Bird
Edward Bird by Edward Villiers Rippingille, 1817
Born1772
Wolverhampton
Died2 November 1819
Bristol
NationalityEnglish
Known forGenre painting, History painting

Edward Bird RA (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.[1] 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.

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