Edwin Long

1829–1891 · Realism

Edwin Longsden Long was a successful English genre, history, biblical and portrait painter. He is best known for his Orientalist paintings, many very large, which fetched high prices. His The Babylonian Marriage Market is perhaps his best known work in this line.

40 paintings

• Egyptian Beauty
• Delight Of The Home
• Ireland
• Sir William Erle (1793–1880) (after Francis Grant)
• Las Hilanderas (copy after Diego Velázquez) (1857)
• Mrs Kennedy and Her Children (1860)
• Peter's Pence (1867)
• The Spanish Armstice (1867)
• Spanish Girls (1869)
• The Balcony (1875)
• Joseph Ernest Renan (1823–1892) (1880)
• Pharaoh's Daughter (1886)
• Diana or Christ? (1881)
• Nouzhatoul-aouadat (1881)
• Samuel Cousins (1801–1887), RA (1882)
• Elizabeth Beatrice Drake, Lady Seaton (1884)
• The Chosen Five (1885)
• A Girl of Trinidad (1887)
• Dr James Watson (1792–1878), MD
• Princess Helen Randis Singh
• Lieutenant-Colonel George James Mouat MacDowell, CB, 16th (The Queen’s) Regiment of Light Dragoons (Lancers) (1848)
• Doña Mariana of Austria (1634–1696) (after Diego Velázquez)
• Spanish Beggars
• Hugh Stowell Brown (1823–1886)
• At Prayer
• Charles V (1500–1558) (1890)
• Head
• Philip II of Spain (1527–1598) (1890)
• Love’s Labour Lost (1885)
• The Discovery of Moses (1886)
• A Dorcas meeting in the 6th century (1873)
• The Daughters of Our Empire. England: The Primrose (1887)
• Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1867)
• Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1882)
• The Hon. Harriet Margaret Maxwell, Viscountess Bangor (1805-1880) (1850)
• Edward Ward, 4th Viscount Bangor (1827 - 1881) on a Yacht (1850)
• Mary Dickinson, Viscountess Clifden of Gowran (1853-1921) (1885)
• Queen Esther (1878)
• The Babylonian Marriage Market (1875)
• Uncle Tom and Little Eva (1866)