Edward Bird was an English genre painter who spent most of his working life in Bristol, where the Bristol School of artists formed around him.
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Edward Bird was an English genre painter who spent most of his working life in Bristol, where the Bristol School of artists formed around him. He enjoyed a few years of popularity in London, where he challenged the dominance of Sir David Wilkie in the genre painting field, before moving on to history painting, specialising in battle scenes.
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Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1772 to 1819 · aged 47
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