Edmund Thomas Parris

Coronation of Queen Victoria, 1838

Edmund Thomas Parris (3 June 1793 – 27 November 1873) was an English history, portrait, subject, and panorama painter, book illustrator, designer and art restorer. He was appointed history painter to Queen Adelaide, Queen Consort of William IV, and painted Queen Victoria's coronation in 1838 and the Duke of Wellington's funeral in 1852. He supervised the painting of the huge panorama in the London Colosseum in Regent's Park, London, and was the inventor of "Parris's medium".[1]

  1. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Parris, Edmund Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 43. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 368–9.