Edmund Bristow

Edmund Bristow (1 Apr 1787 – 12 Feb 1876) was an English animal, still life and subject painter.

At an early age he was patronised by the Princess Elizabeth, the Duke of Clarence (afterwards William IV), and others.

He made sketches of well-known characters in Eton and Windsor, painted still life, interiors, and domestic and sporting subjects.

He had great sympathy with animals, some power of rendering their characteristic movements and expressions, and is said to have been a friend of and given advice to Sir Edwin Landseer.

Bristow produced little during the fifteen years immediately preceding his death, which took place at Eton on 12 February 1876, at the age of 89.