:Peter Edwards (artist)

In 1980 he exhibited a small self-portrait in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. The painting was bought by the art collector, Sir Brinsley Ford.{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-sir-brinsley-ford-1092134.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-sir-brinsley-ford-1092134.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | location=London | work=The Independent | first=George | last=Ireland | title=Obituary: Sir Brinsley Ford | date=8 May 1999}}

In 1986 his portrait of The Liverpool Poets was purchased by the National Portrait Gallery. His continuing involvement with the gallery and Robin Gibson{{cite news|author=Charles Saumarez Smith |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/aug/16/robin-gibson-obituary |title=Robin Gibson obituary | Art and design |work=The Guardian |date= 16 August 2010|accessdate=18 January 2011 |location=London}} then 20th Century Curator (later Chief Curator) led to a major one-man exhibition and tour in the Gallery in April 1990 "Contemporary Poets", which consisted of 17 large canvasses of 20 poets, alongside a poem from each poet, numerous studies, and a series of Saturday morning readings from Seamus Heaney, Douglas Dunn, Charles Causley, Wendy Cope, and Craig Raine.{{cite web |url=http://archivecatalogue.npg.org.uk/Public/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%22NPG32/187%22) |title=National Portrait Gallery Archive Catalogue |publisher=Archivecatalogue.npg.org.uk |date=24 June 1990 |accessdate=20 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201185814/http://archivecatalogue.npg.org.uk/Public/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo%3D%3D%22NPG32%2F187%22%29 |archive-date=1 February 2014 |url-status=dead }}

On 30 July 1991, Bobby Moore unveiled Edwards' portrait of Bobby Charlton{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-sitters-tale-sir-bobby-charlton-1118666.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-sitters-tale-sir-bobby-charlton-1118666.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | location=London | work=The Independent | first=Andrew | last=MacPherson | title=THE SITTER'S TALE: Sir Bobby Charlton | date=12 September 1999}} in the National Portrait Gallery, Sponsored by British Gas plc, it marked the 25th anniversary of England winning the FIFA World Cup.{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?mkey=mw08122&LinkID=mp07914&role=art&rNo=4 |title=National Portrait Gallery – Portrait – NPG 6140; Sir Robert ('Bobby') Charlton |publisher=Npg.org.uk |accessdate=18 January 2011}} He later painted Ryan Giggs for the National Library of Wales.

In 1993 he exhibited in The Portrait Now show. In 1994 he won the BP Portrait Award{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?search=ap&npgno=6332 |title=National Portrait Gallery – Portrait – NPG 6332; Kazuo Ishiguro |publisher=Npg.org.uk |accessdate=18 January 2011}} with Portrait of an Artist's Model (of Marguerite Kelsey).{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaries-marguerite-kelsey-1610613.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaries-marguerite-kelsey-1610613.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | location=London | work=The Independent | first=Richard | last=Ormond | title=OBITUARIES Marguerite Kelsey | date=10 March 1995}} She had been the model of choice, in the inter-war years, for many leading artists, including Meredith Frampton.{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=-1&workid=4521&searchid=9300&roomid=3539&tabview=text&texttype=8 |title=Website undergoing maintenance |work=Tate Etc. |accessdate=20 August 2014}} This award led to his commission to paint Kazuo Ishiguro, which was unveiled the following summer in the National Portrait Gallery by Ismail Merchant.

• National Portrait Gallery, London. 6 works.{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp07914&role=art |title=National Portrait Gallery – Person – Peter Edwards |publisher=Npg.org.uk |accessdate=18 January 2011}} The portraits are of: Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten, (triple portrait known as) The Liverpool Poets. Seamus Heaney, John Heath-Stubbs, Willy Russell, Sir Bobby Charlton, and Kazuo Ishiguro.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York{{cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/all/work_in_regress_peter_edwards/objectview.aspx?page=1&sort=6&sortdir=asc&keyword=Peter%20Reading&fp=1&dd1=0&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=0&OID=210007213&vT=1&hi=0&ov=0 |title=Work in Regress | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |publisher=Metmuseum.org |accessdate=18 January 2011}} of the British Poet Peter Reading, and Armenian poet Vahé Oshagan.
• National Museum Wales, painting of Tyrone O'Sullivan.{{cite web|url=http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/art/online/?action=show_item&item=529 |title=Art Collections Online | National Museum Wales |publisher=Museumwales.ac.uk |accessdate=18 January 2011}}
• Ulster Museum, Belfast,{{cite web|url=http://www.nmni.com/Home/online-collections/Item-Details.aspx?id=1934902&Cat=502171&SubCat=501663&SubsubCat=-1&Ret=http%3a%2f%2fwww.nmni.com%2fHome%2fOnline-Collections.aspx%3fpage%3d0%26PageSize%3d25%26DisplayListing%3dTrue%26CatalogId%3d%26Cat%3d502171%26SubCat%3d501663%26SubSubCat%3d-1%26Term%3dMichael+Longley%26ShowImages%3dFalse%26AdvSearch%3dFalse |title=National Museums Northern Ireland |publisher=Nmni.com |accessdate=18 January 2011}} painting of Michael Longley.
• National Library of Wales, 6 works
• St Andrews University, portrait of Principal Struther Arnott{{cite web|url=http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-608-701-C |title=Portrait of Principal Struther Arnott (1934–) |publisher=Scran |date=5 January 1998 |accessdate=18 January 2011}}
• Birmingham University{{cite web|url=http://www.rcc.bham.ac.uk/history.shtml |title=History of the Collections |publisher=Rcc.bham.ac.uk |accessdate=18 January 2011}}
• Warwick University, painting of Sir Christopher Zeeman{{cite web|url=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/art/artist/peteredwards |title=University of Warwick Art Collection – Artists – Peter Edwards |publisher=.warwick.ac.uk |date=11 February 2009 |accessdate=18 January 2011}}
• Ferens Gallery, Hull{{cite web|url=http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections/collections/theme.php?irn=1033 |title=Portrait of Douglas Dunn – Hull Museums Collections |publisher=Government of the United Kingdom |accessdate=18 January 2011}}
• National Museums Liverpool portrait of Willy Russell
• Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead
• Moma Wales, Sir Kyffyn Williams,{{cite web|url=http://www.momawales.org.uk/?p=643 |title=Edwards, Peter " Moma Wales |publisher=Momawales.org.uk |accessdate=20 August 2014}} Ruth Lambert{{cite web|url=http://www.momawales.org.uk/?p=641 |title=Edwards, Peter " Moma Wales |publisher=Momawales.org.uk |accessdate=20 August 2014}}
• St George's Hospital, London
• Sheffield University{{cite web|publisher=University of Sheffield |url=http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mediacentre/2010/1677.html |title=Can't find the page you're looking for? |date=2 January 2013 |accessdate=20 August 2014}} Portraits of Sir Peter Middleton and Sir Harry Kroto
• Manchester University portraits of Sir Martin Harris and Alan Gilbert
• University of Gloucestershire portraits of Craig Raine, Kit Wright, Maud Sulter and [https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poets/vuyelwa-carlin/ Vuyelwa Carlin]

• The National Portrait Gallery Collection, 1988. Page 203 colour illustration The Liverpool Poets Oil on canvass, 175.9 x 237.5 By Peter Edwards, 1985 (5853) {{ISBN|0-904017-89-3}}
• Contemporary Poets, Portraits By Peter Edwards, A National portrait Gallery Exhibition, 1990. "Foreword" by Robin Gibson Curator 20th Century Collection. {{Listed Invalid ISBN|0-85514-031-4}}. [http://www.peteredwards.net/contemporarypoets.htm view]
• The Portrait Now, National Portrait Gallery, 1993. Page 52. {{ISBN|1-85514-098-5}}
• drawings paintings and sculptures, the catalogue. Published by the museums and galleries of Northern Ireland. {{ISBN|0-900761-38-5}}. Page 247 Portrait of Michael Longley b.1939 (1989–1990) U4825
• Royal Academy Illustrated 1996, A Souvenir of the 228th Summer Exhibition. Page 10, Peter Edwards Self Portrait Oil 7 × 5 ins.

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• {{Art UK bio}}
• [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp07914&role=art National Portrait Gallery – Peter Edwards]
• [http://www.peteredwards.net/ Artist's website.]
• [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/search/actor:edwards-peter-douglas-b-1955 The works of Peter Edwards on Art UK]
• [https://museum.wales/collections/online/agent/ef3e4200-8c46-3fb3-bc4d-9e6783982ee5/EDWARDS-Peter/?field0=string&value0=peter%20edwards National Museum Wales]
• [https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!/search?artist=Edwards,%20Peter$Peter%20Edwards Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]
• [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp07914/peter-edwards?role=sit Edwards as sitter in The National Portrait Gallery]
• [http://adrianhenri.com/ Adrian Henri website]

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