Edward Chatfield

Edward Chatfield (1802 – 22 January 1839, in London) was an English portrait painter who also painted some historical subjects. Through James Elmes, the editor of Annals of the Fine Arts, he obtained an introduction to Benjamin Robert Haydon, who accepted him as a pupil. In Haydon's studio he went through a full course of practical anatomy, and made a close study of two of Haydon's particular enthusiasms, the Elgin Marbles and the works of Raphael, especially the Raphael Cartoons.

Among his portrait subjects were a group Huron chiefs, who visited London in 1825. Lithographs of the paintings were made by Charles Hullmandel. His painting of the Campbells of Islay on an otter hunt, was shown at the Royal Academy in 1834. showing, in addition to some portraits, the Death of Locke in 1833, the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1836, and Ophelia in 1837. He wrote some articles for Blackwood's Magazine, and the New Monthly Magazine, under the pseudonym "Echion".

He died at 66 Judd Street, Brunswick Square, where he had lived with the wood-engraver John Orrin Smith and Orrin Smith's family for some years, on 22 January 1839.