Edward Villiers Rippingille (c. 1790–1859) was an English oil painter and watercolourist who was a member of the informal group of artists which has come to be known as the Bristol School.

[2] For a period he worked taking portraits and teaching drawing in Wisbech, where his paintings were seen and admired by John Clare.

[1] In 1822 the Royal Academy saw The Recruiting Sergeant, a work following the style of Bird, and The Funeral Procession of William Canynge to St Mary Redcliffe, 1474.

It depicts some of the literary figures associated with Bristol: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth and Robert Southey.

He returned to London where he married in 1832, before travelling to France again, in the company of James Baker Pyne.