Name Edward Finden | Siblings William Finden | |
Died 1857, St John's Wood, London, United Kingdom Books Ports and Harbours of Great Britain | ||
Edward Francis Finden (1791–1857) was an English engraver.
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Life
Finden was the younger brother, fellow-pupil, and coadjutor of William Finden, and shared his successes and fortunes.
Works
Finden executed some separate works, among early ones being a set of etchings for Richard Duppa's Miscellaneous Opinions and Observations on the Continent (1825) and Illustrations of the Vaudois in a Series of Views (1831). He was also a large contributor of illustrations to the annuals, books of beauty, poetry, and other sentimental works then in vogue.
The separate engravings he executed included: The Harvest Waggon, after Thomas Gainsborough; As Happy as a King' after William Collins; Captain Macheath in Prison, after Gilbert Stuart Newton; The Little Gleaner after Sir William Beechey; The Princess Victoria, after Richard Westall and Othello telling his Exploits to Brabantio and Desdemona, after Douglas Cowper. He also did engravings for landscape painter James Duffield Harding (1798-1863) including "Mount Edgcumbe".
He died at St. John's Wood, aged 65, on 9 February 1857.