Edward Nash (painter)

Edward Nash (1778–1821) was an English painter, best known for his miniatures.

Life
Edward Nash was born in 1778. He became a pupil of Samuel Shelley, and trained as a miniaturist. He visited the Netherlands with Robert Southey and his family in 1815. Nash painted a miniature of the famous poet, and a double portrait miniature of Edith May Southey and Sara Coleridge, in 1820. In later life, he also spent several years in India. He exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 1811 to 1820. He died in 1821, in London.