Edmund Garvey

Edmund Garvey RA (1740 in Kilkenny – 28 May 1813) was a landscape painter from Ireland.

[1] Born in Kilkenny, Ireland, he first studied under Robert Carver and then in Rome.

Vesuvius, May 1792 and View of the Lake of Geneva with the Effect of a Flash of Lightning.

His watercolour Waterfall in the Alps (Royal Academy, 1769) was one of the first Alpine paintings exhibited in Britain.

He is perhaps best known for his somewhat heavy British and Irish views such as Figures In The Grounds Of Hestercombe, Somerset and The Old Dee Bridge, Chester.

Old Dee Bridge, attributed to Edmund Garvey