Edgar Longstaffe

Edgar Longstaffe (1852 - December 7, 1933), was a well-known landscape painter of the Victorian era.

He was born near Derby in Derbyshire, England. The son of a doctor , he married and moved to Newport, Essex. During the 1880’s he exhibited five times at the Royal Academy and at the Royal Hibernian Academy and at Birmingham. A prolific painter , many of his pictures, signed E.L. often in vermilion must be in existence today. Edgar Longstaffe was for some years on the staff of Messrs Raphael Tuck & Sons being sent by them to all the principal beauty spots of the British Isles to obtain sketches for reproduction work in the earlier days of the art picture postcard. He was especially fond of portraying Highland scenery with cattle and he excelled in the painting of water . Later in life he moved to Laindon, Essex were he lived for 25 years he was buried alongside his wife in Laindon churchyard. His son Ernest Longstaffe went on to become a famous composer and producer.

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*cite book|title=Dictionary of British Art Vol. V British Artists 1880 - 1940 |first=J.Johnson & A. Greutzner |publisher=Antique Collectors Club|year=1999|id=ISBN 0-902-02836-7