Edwin Edwards (artist)

Edwin Edwards (6 January 1823 – 15 September 1879) was a British landscape painter, etcher and lawyer.

[6] He was well connected within European artistic circles, befriending and being encouraged in particular by Alphonse Legros and James McNeill Whistler, the latter also sharing a passion for vocal music.

[7] Charles Keene was also a friend of Edwards as well as Jacques-Emile Blanche, Édouard Manet, Swinburne and Jacquemart.

[8] In a letter of 1874 Fantin-Latour described a projected double portrait which would depict Edwards sitting working at his etching table with his wife at his side 'like a guardian angel'.

Edwards sits at an angle, seemingly unaware of the spectator, while his wife faces the viewer with an uncompromising stare.