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Edwin Austin Forbes (1839 – March 6, 1895) was an American landscape painter and etcher who first gained fame during the
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Edwin Austin Forbes (1839 – March 6, 1895) was an American landscape painter and etcher who first gained fame during the American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and the Confederate States of A ...
for his detailed and dramatic sketches of military subjects, including battlefield combat scenes.
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 spiritedetching
Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other type ...
s 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
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and is interred in Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Life Studies of the Great Army, a digital collection of The University of Alabama Libraries Division of Special Collections
19th-century American painters American male painters American printmakers People of New York (state) in the American Civil War 19th-century American etchers Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery 1839 births 1895 deaths Painters from New York City 19th-century American war artists 19th-century American male artists {{AmericanCivilWar-bio-stub