Edwin Longsden Long RA (12 July 1829 – 15 May 1891) was a British genre, history, biblical and portrait painter. Long was born in Bath, Somerset, the son of James Long, a hairdresser, (from Kelston in Somerset), and was educated at Dr. Viner's School in Bath.

The Babylonian Marriage Market is an 1875 painting by the British painter Edwin Long. It depicts a scene from Herodotus' Histories of young women being auctioned into marriage in the area then known as Babylon or Assyria. It received attention for its provocative depiction of women.

Long visited the Holy Land in 1874, & began to produce large, rather static, pictures of incidents from the Bible. His painting “ The Babylonian Marriage Market,” was a great success at the Royal Academy in 1875, & was afterwards sold for the enormous sum of …

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individual; painter/draughtsman; British; Male. Life dates. 1829-1891. Biography. Painter of historical genre, often incorporating actual examples of objects from antiquity (especially from the collections of the British Museum), such as 'The Babylonian Marriage Market' (1875; Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London); Royal Academician.

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Queen Esther is an 1878 painting by Edwin Long. [1] The painter drew upon travelogue illustrations in the British Museum in order to produce this vision of the biblical Queen Esther in Ahasuerus ' palace at Susa. The painting was first displayed in 1878 at the Royal Academy, and is now a part of the collection Pérez Simón.

Following the work’s critical acclaim, Long specialised in well-researched depictions of the ancient world. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1881 and Agnew & Sons...

Edwin Long was an English genre, history, biblical and portrait painter. Long was born in Bath, Somerset, the son of James Long, a hairdresser, (from Kelston in Somerset), and was educated at Dr. Viner's School in Bath.

One of the most successful painters of the Victorian period, Edwin Longsden Long (1829-1891) earned accolades as well as wealth during his long career and member of the Royal Academy.