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Edwin Longsden Long RA (12 July 1829 – 15 May 1891) was a British genre, history, biblical and portrait painter. Life and works. Queen Esther (1878) Long was born in Bath, Somerset, the son of James Long, a hairdresser, (from Kelston in Somerset ), and was educated at Dr. Viner's School in Bath.
- Painter
- James Mathews Leigh, London
- English
- Orientalist
View Edwin Long’s 224 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available paintings, and prints and multiples for sale and learn about the artist.
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The Babylonian Marriage Market is an 1875 painting by the British painter Edwin Long. It depicts a scene from Herodotus' Histories of young women being auctioned into marriage in the area then known as Babylon or Assyria. It received attention for its provocative depiction of women.
- Oil on Canvas
- Edwin Long
Also known as. Edwin Long. primary name: Long, Edwin Longsden. Details. individual; painter/draughtsman; British; Male. Life dates. 1829-1891. Biography. Painter of historical genre, often incorporating actual examples of objects from antiquity (especially from the collections of the British Museum), such as 'The Babylonian Marriage Market ...
In Love’s Labour Lost, Edwin Long has captured ancient Egyptian life in an equally dramatic, yet intimate, fashion in this highly detailed and thoroughly researched painting, one of several Egyptianizing canvases from his career (See Humbert, in Egyptomania, pp. 491-493; Bills, Edwin Longsden Long RA, pp. 112-113, 116-117, 169).
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Longs pictures, like those of Alma-Tadema, were praised for the accuracy of their historic settings, & the precise rendering of historical artefacts. Long produced a number of very large canvasses with biblical scenes which made him a wealthy high profile artist.
Picture Books of the Past: Edwin Long - Museum & Gallery. Enjoy this series of segments highlighting Picture Books of the Past: Reading Old Master Paintings, a loan exhibition of 60+ works from the M&G collection. The exhibit has traveled to The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. and the Orlando Museum of Art in Florida.
