Edward Francis Finden

Training under James Mitan is recorded. Samuel Hollyer, Samuel Rawle and Samuel Sangster are recorded as having studied under Edward Francis Finden. The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Residence is recorded at Fitzroy Square. Work by Edward Francis Finden is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Canada, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, National Library of Wales, National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Finden was the younger brother, fellow-pupil, and coadjutor of William Finden, and shared his successes and fortunes.[1]

• Illustration — John Richardson, 1828 by Thomas Phillips, R.A., engraved by Finden Finden executed some separate works, among early ones being a set of etchings for Richard Duppa's Miscellaneous Opinions and Observations on the Continent (1825) and Illustrations of the Vaudois in a Series of Views (1831). He was also a large contributor of illustrations to the annuals, books of beauty, poetry, and other sentimental works then in vogue. The separate engravings he executed included: The Harvest Waggon, after Thomas Gainsborough; As Happy as a King after William Collins; Captain Macheath in Prison, after Gilbert Stuart Newton; The Little Gleaner after Sir William Beechey; The Princess Victoria, after Richard Westall and Othello telling his Exploits to Brabantio and Desdemona, after Douglas Cowper. He also did engravings for landscape painter James Duffield Harding (1798–1863) including "Mount Edgcumbe". He died at St. John's Wood, aged 65, on 9 February 1857 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.[2]