Edwin Alexander

Edwin John Alexander RSA RSW RWS (1870–1926) was a Scottish artist known for his pictures of animals and birds.

[1] He was born in Edinburgh in February 1870 the eldest son of the artist Robert Alexander and his wife.

In 1887 and 1888 he accompanied his father on a trip to Tangiers with Joseph Crawhall III and Pollock Nisbet.

[2] In 1892 he returned to North Africa and settled on the Nile, living on a houseboat on the river for 4 years.

He his buried in Inveresk Cemetery in the northern section, on a wall backing onto the original churchyard to the south (east of the large red granite monument to John Brunton).