Edward Dayes

Edward Dayes (1763 in London – May 1804 in London) was an English watercolour painter and engraver in mezzotint.

Life Salisbury Cathedral, 1798 engraving by Francis Jukes, after Dayes. He studied under William Pether, In the three following years he exhibited both miniatures and landscapes. He continued to exhibit at the Academy regularly until the year of his death, contributing a total of 64 works. He also was an exhibitor at the Society of Artists. He laid out detailed rules for the correct method of laying down the colours in landscape in his Instructions for Drawing and Colouring Landscapes, published posthumously. The art historian Graham Reynolds sees Dayes' work as "mark[ing] the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century".