Eden Upton Eddis
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Eden Upton Eddis (1812–1901) was a British artist. Eden enrolled at the Royal Academy schools in 1828.[1] From the age of 25 until he was nearly 70 his work was regularly exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1837 and 1881,[2][3] and 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.
Among the subjects of his portraits were the historian Lord Macaulay, Archbishop Sumner, the essayist and fashionable cleric Sydney Smith,[2] the Archbishop of Canterbury,and Peter Mark Roget the compiler of the original thesaurus.
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