Edwin Forbes
{{Short description|American painter}}
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File:A stormy march-(Artillery)-Spotsylvania Court House LCCN2004661879.jpg, sketched by Edwin Forbes.]]
File:Civil War steeplechase2.jpg celebration in the Army of the Potomac. Depicts a steeplechase race among the Irish Brigade, March 17, 1863, Edwin Forbes. Digitally restored.]]
Edwin Austin Forbes (1839 – March 6, 1895) was an American landscape painter and etcher who first gained fame during the American Civil War for his detailed and dramatic sketches of military subjects, including battlefield combat scenes.{{Cite web |title=Edwin Austin Forbes |url=https://www.clan-forbes.org/people/Edwin-Austin-Forbes- |access-date=July 27, 2023 |website=ClanForbesSociety |language=en}}
Biography
Forbes was born in New York, studied under Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, and began as an animal and landscape painter. During the Civil War, he was special artist for Frank Leslie's Magazine. Many of the spirited etchings he drew during the conflict were later presented by General Sherman to the government. They are now preserved in the War Office at Washington because of their historic value.
After the war, Forbes painted landscape and cattle scenes, among which are "Orange County Pasture" (1879) and "Evening—Sheep Pasture" (1881). In 1877 he was made an honorary member of the London Etching Club.
He died in 1895 in Brooklyn and is interred in Green-Wood Cemetery.
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External links
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- [http://purl.lib.ua.edu/34278 Life Studies of the Great Army, a digital collection of The University of Alabama Libraries Division of Special Collections]
- [http://www.green-wood.com/burial_results/index.php Green-Wood Cemetery Burial Search]
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Category:19th-century American painters
Category:American male painters
Category:People of New York (state) in the American Civil War
Category:19th-century American etchers
Category:Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery
Category:Painters from New York City
Category:19th-century American war artists
Category:19th-century American male artists
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