Daniel Thomas Egerton

Who was Daniel Thomas Egerton?

Daniel Thomas Egerton, was a British landscape painter,

Egerton was one of the original members of the Society of British Artists, where he exhibited in the years 1824 to 1829, and in 1838 to 1840.

He spent much of the later part of his life in Mexico, and in 1840 published Egerton's Views in Mexico, a portfolio of lithographs described in the subtitle as "being a Series of Twelve Coloured Plates, executed by himself from his Original Drawings, accompanied with a short Description".

Egerton and his wife were murdered in the village of Tacubaya, Mexico, where they had rented a house, on 27 April 1842.

A painting of The Ravine of the Desert was sold at Christie's New York in 2007 for $384,000.

His painting The Valley of Mexico is in the British Government Art Collection.