# Edgar Bundy

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'''Edgar Bundy''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|ARA}} (1862 in [Brighton](/source/Brighton) – 1922 in [London](/source/London)) was an English painter.

==Biography==
Bundy had no formal training but learned some of his craft at the studio of [Alfred Stevens](/source/Alfred_Stevens_(sculptor)).<ref>{{cite book |author=H. L. Mallalieu |title=The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920|year=1986|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|isbn=1-85149-025-6|page=59}}</ref> Bundy specialised in [historical paintings](/source/historical_paintings) in [oil](/source/Oil_paint) and [watercolour](/source/watercolour), usually in a very detailed and [narrative](/source/narrative_art) style, a genre which was very popular in the [Edwardian](/source/Edwardian) time Bundy lived in. He exhibited at the [Royal Academy](/source/Royal_Academy) in 1915 and at the [Paris Salon](/source/Paris_Salon) in 1907. In the [Tate](/source/Tate) Gallery is his [Royal Academy](/source/Royal_Academy) painting of 1905 entitled ''The Morning of Sedgemoor'' depicting the [Duke of Monmouth](/source/Duke_of_Monmouth)'s rebels resting in a barn before [the battle](/source/Battle_of_Sedgemoor).

Influences in Bundy's work include [Pre-Raphaelites](/source/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood) such as [John Millais](/source/John_Millais), [William Morris](/source/William_Morris) and the works of [John Ruskin](/source/John_Ruskin).

His daughter Dorothy married the painter [Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly](/source/Richard_Talbot_Kelly) in 1924.<ref name="TKA">{{cite web |title=Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly |url=https://talbotkelly.com/richard-barrett-talbot-kelly/ |website=The Talbot Kelly Ancestors |accessdate=6 May 2019}}</ref><ref name="NAM">{{cite web |title=Lieutenant Richard Talbot Kelly |url=http://ww1.nam.ac.uk/stories/lieutenant-richard-talbot-kelly/ |website=National Army Museum, London |accessdate=6 May 2019}}</ref>

==Gallery of works==

<gallery>
After Naseby.jpg|''After Naseby'' (1887)
Edgar Bundy - The Little Donkey (1889).jpg|''The Little Donkey'' (1889)
Stradshp.jpg|''[Antonio Stradivari](/source/Antonio_Stradivari) at work in his studio'' (1893)
Edgar Bundy - The podrigal son.jpg|''The Prodigal Son''
'The Morning of Sedgemoor' by Edgar Bundy, Tate Britain.JPG|''The Morning of Sedgemoor'' (1905)
Death as general rides a horse on a battlefield. Watercolour Wellcome V0042260.jpg|''Death as General Rides a Horse on a Battlefield'' (1911)
</gallery>

==Notes==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Edgar Bundy}}
* {{Art UK bio}}
* [http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Academicians&person=5550 Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections]

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