Edmund Garvey

Edmund Garvey RA
Portrait by William Daniell after George Dance the Younger
Born	1740 (1740) Kilkenny, Ireland
Died	28 May 1813(1813-05-28) (aged 72–73)

Edmund Garvey RA (1740 in Kilkenny – 28 May 1813) was a landscape painter from Ireland.[1][2] Garvey worked in oil and water-colour.[1]

Life and career

Old Dee Bridge, attributed to Edmund Garvey

Born in Kilkenny, Ireland, he first studied under Robert Carver and then in Rome. The bulk of his work was done in London from 1764 onwards, with a spell in Rome in 1798.

He exhibited views of Rome, around Savoy and other continental locations, for example, View of the Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, May 1792 and View of the Lake of Geneva with the Effect of a Flash of Lightning. His watercolour Waterfall in the Alps (Royal Academy, 1769) was one of the first Alpine paintings exhibited in Britain.

He is perhaps best known for his somewhat heavy British and Irish views such as Figures In The Grounds Of Hestercombe, Somerset and The Old Dee Bridge, Chester.

He was elected an Associate in 1770, and was elected Royal Academician on 11 February 1783.[2] He exhibited over 100 times at the Royal Academy.

References

Citations

1. Strickland 1913.
2. "Edmund Garvey RA (1740 - 1813)". royalacademy.org.uk. Royal Academy of Arts.

Bibliography

• Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1978). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Garrick to Gyngell. SIU Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-8093-0833-0.
• Strickland, Walter (1913). "Garvey Edmund, R.A. (d. 1813). Landscape Painter.". A Dictionary of Irish Artists. Vol. 1. Dublin and London: Maunsel and Company. pp. 399–400. ISBN 9781108053167.

External links

• 8 artworks by or after Edmund Garvey at the Art UK site