Alfred Essex (died 1871 in South Africa), was an English enamel-painter, who worked with his brother William Essex to popularise enamel painting in the nineteenth century.
[1] Little is known of the parentage and early life of Alfred Essex and his brother William.
[1] The brothers worked for and under Charles Muss, enamel painter to William IV, trying to show to the public that works could be executed in enamel possessing the transparency, crispness, and texture of other methods of painting.
The Geological Museum holds a series of examples showing the colours prepared by him which had the quality of remaining the same after vitrification.
He later emigrated to South Africa, where he left a daughter Harriet.