Edwin Harris

Edwin Harris (1855–1906) was an English painter from Ladywood, Birmingham.

Biography Harris entered the Birmingham School of Art at the age of fourteen, where he worked under Charles Morgan, F G Jackson and Edward R Taylor. Fellow students included Walter Langley, William John Wainwright and William Breakspeare. Harris was recognised as one of the pioneers of the Newlyn School of artists which included his fellow Birmingham painters, Langley, Wainwright and William Banks Fortescue. Joined by Alexander and Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes, Thomas Cooper Gotch and Frederick Hall, the colony became the focus for modern painting in Britain. He left Newlyn in 1895 and took up portrait painting in Cardiff, Newport and Bristol and it became his main source of income.

In 1898 he returned to Birmingham, opening a studio in Norwich Union Chambers before settling in Cleeve Prior, Worcestershire where he died.

Harris was elected Associate in 1885 and Member in 1886 of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.