Eden Upton Eddis

Who was Eden Upton Eddis?

Eden Upton Eddis was a British artist. Eden enrolled at the Royal Academy schools in 1828. From the age of 25 until he was nearly 70 his work was regularly exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1837 and 1881, and is best known for his portraits, which included many of well-known people; the National Portrait Gallery in London holds a number of examples of his work or of lithographs based on his work, as well as a drawing of him by Walker Hodgson.

Among the subjects of his portraits were the historian Lord Macaulay, Archbishop Sumner, the essayist and fashionable cleric Sydney Smith, the Archbishop of Canterbury,and Peter Mark Roget the compiler of the original thesaurus.