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Eddis, Eden Upton (1812–1901), painter
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9 May 1812 – 7 April 1901
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Eden was born in Newington Green in 1812. He enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools in 1828 and between 1837 and 1881 his work was regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy.
He is best known for his portraits, which included many of well-known people. The National Portrait Gallery in London holds a drawing of him by Walker Hodgson.
Among the subjects of his portraits were the historian Lord Macaulay, Bishop Charles James Blomfield, Archbishop Sumner, the essayist and fashionable cleric Sydney Smith, the sculptor Francis Leggatt Chantrey and Peter Mark Roget the compiler of the original thesaurus. He died in 1901 at Shalford near Guildford.