Edwin Austin Abbey

Painter

Birthday April 1, 1852

Birth Sign Aries

Birthplace Pennsylvania

DEATH DATE Aug 1, 1911 (59)

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About

Painter and illustrator known for his Victorian and Shakespearean-themed artwork. He is most remembered for a piece entitled The Quest of the Holy Grail.

Before Fame

After attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, he started publishing illustrations in such magazines as Harper's Weekly and Scribner's.

Trivia

He illustrated an 1896 edition of the comic plays of William Shakespeare.

Family Life

He grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He wed Gertrude Mead, a New York merchant's daughter, in the late 1880s.

Associated With

He illustrated a collection of the verse of seventeenth-century poet Robert Herrick.