# Edwin Forbes > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edwin_Forbes > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edwin_Forbes.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Forbes > Source revision: 1342886110 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American painter}} {{about||the "Father of the California Cadet Corps"|Edwin Alexander Forbes}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Edwin Forbes | honorific_suffix = | image = Edwin Forbes, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1839 | birth_place = [New York City](/source/New_York_City) | death_date = {{Death date and age|1895|03|06|1839}} | death_place = [Brooklyn](/source/Brooklyn) | resting_place = [Green-Wood Cemetery](/source/Green-Wood_Cemetery) | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = | education = | alma_mater = | known_for = [Landscape](/source/Landscape) painter and etcher | notable_works = [Military](/source/Military) subjects | style = | home_town = | movement = | spouse = | partner = | awards = | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website = | module = }} thumb|300px|{{center|Poster by Edwin Forbes}} [[File:A stormy march-(Artillery)-Spotsylvania Court House LCCN2004661879.jpg|thumb|left|A stormy march to the [Battle of Spotsylvania Court House](/source/Battle_of_Spotsylvania_Court_House), sketched by Edwin Forbes.]] [[File:Civil War steeplechase2.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[Saint Patrick's Day](/source/Saint_Patrick's_Day) celebration in the [Army of the Potomac](/source/Army_of_the_Potomac). Depicts a [steeplechase](/source/Steeplechase_(horse_racing)) race among the [Irish Brigade](/source/Irish_Brigade_(U.S.)), March 17, 1863, Edwin Forbes. Digitally restored.]] '''Edwin Austin Forbes''' (1839 – March 6, 1895) was an American landscape painter and etcher who first gained fame during the [American Civil War](/source/American_Civil_War) for his detailed and dramatic sketches of military subjects, including battlefield combat scenes.{{Cite web |title=Edwin Austin Forbes |url=https://www.clan-forbes.org/people/Edwin-Austin-Forbes- |access-date=July 27, 2023 |website=ClanForbesSociety |language=en}} ==Biography== Forbes was born in [New York](/source/New_York_City), studied under [Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait](/source/Arthur_Fitzwilliam_Tait), and began as an animal and landscape painter. During the Civil War, he was special artist for ''[Frank Leslie's Magazine](/source/Frank_Leslie)''. Many of the spirited [etching](/source/etching)s he drew during the conflict were later presented by [General Sherman](/source/William_Tecumseh_Sherman) to the government. They are now preserved in the [War Office](/source/United_States_Department_of_War) at [Washington](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.) because of their historic value. After the war, Forbes painted landscape and cattle scenes, among which are "Orange County Pasture" (1879) and "Evening—Sheep Pasture" (1881). In 1877 he was made an honorary member of the [London Etching Club](/source/London_Etching_Club). He died in 1895 in [Brooklyn](/source/Brooklyn) and is interred in [Green-Wood Cemetery](/source/Green-Wood_Cemetery). ==References== {{Reflist}} :{{NIE}} ==External links== {{Commons category}} *[http://purl.lib.ua.edu/34278 Life Studies of the Great Army, a digital collection of The University of Alabama Libraries Division of Special Collections] *[http://www.green-wood.com/burial_results/index.php Green-Wood Cemetery Burial Search] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Forbes, Edwin}} Category:19th-century American painters Category:American male painters Category:American printmakers Category:People of New York (state) in the American Civil War Category:19th-century American etchers Category:Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery Category:1839 births Category:1895 deaths Category:Painters from New York City Category:19th-century American war artists Category:19th-century American male artists {{AmericanCivilWar-bio-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Edwin Forbes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Forbes) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Forbes?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.