William Essex (painter)

Portrait of Prince Frederick Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld painted by Ferdinand Jagemann, enamel painting by William Essex, Royal Collection, 1848

William Essex (c.1784 – 29 December 1869, Brighton), was an English enamel-painter. He was the chief mid-nineteenth-century exponent of enamel painting, an art which had been extended from portrait miniatures to larger enamel plaques by Henry Bone in the early nineteenth century.[1]

  1. ^ V. Remington, ‘Essex family (per. c.1800–c.1860)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 27 February 2011