The New Student's Reference Work/Abbey, Edwin Austin

For works with similar titles, see Edwin Austin Abbey.

Abbey, Edwin Austin, an American artist, was born April 3, 1852, at Philadelphia. In 1883 he removed to England. He was an illustrator of a high order and a painter of watercolors that reveal ability as a colorist. His chief characteristic was love for English country life and scenery and for old poets and dramatists. His most famous painting is The Quest for the Holy Grail, in the Boston Library, and his illustrations of Shakspere and Goldsmith are notable. King Edward VII commissioned him to paint the coronation at Westminster. Died Aug. 1, 1911.