Edward Harrison May

Edward Harrison May Jr. (1824 – May 17, 1887[1]) was an English-American painter who spent much of his career in Paris.

The son of Edward Harrison May Sr., a Dutch Reformed clergyman, May was born in Croydon, England, and brought to America in 1834 when his father accepted a post in New York.

After early training in civil engineering, May turned to art, studying for a time with Daniel Huntington.

With Joseph Kyle and others he produced a panorama representing Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress which was first exhibited in 1848, to great financial success.

In 1878 he was elected to the National Academy of Design in New York (although he never completed the process of becoming a member).