Eden Upton Eddis

Eden Upton Eddis (1812-1901) was a British artist.

He 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.

From the age of 25 until he was nearly 70 his work was regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy. Among the subjects of his portraits were the historian Lord Macaulay, John Bird Sumner the Archbishop of Canterbury, the essayist and fashionable cleric Sydney Smith, and Peter Roget the compiler of the original thesaurus.