Edward Vischer (1809–1878) was a German-born painter and photographer who migrated from Germany to Mexico at the age of nineteen.

In Mexico, he worked with the commercial house of Heinrich Virmond, traveling throughout the Pacific Coast region of the Americas.

In 1835, he visited Peru on business, where he lived with artist Mauritius Rugendas and met Charles Darwin.

Edward Vischer died on December 24, 1878, in San Francisco, California.

A partial list of Vischer's works include: