PARRIS

Edmund Thomas (son of Edward Parris). b. parish of St. Marylebone, London 3 June 1793; learnt enamel painting and metal chasing with Ray and Montague, the jewellers; entered schools of the R.A. 1816; painted the panorama of London for the Colo eum 1825–9; painted with W. Daniell, R.A. a panorama of Madras; a fashionable portrait painter some years; many of his pictures were engraved in the Keepsake, .; made a sketch of queen Victoria on her first state visit to Drury Lane theatre Nov. 1837, and from this painted a portrait, of which an engraving was published April 1838; painted a picture of the queen’s coronation 1838; gained a prize of £100 at the cartoon competition in Westminster Hall 1843, for his Joseph of A rima the a converting the Britons; repainted Thorn hill’s paintings in St. Paul’s cathedral 1853–6; historical painter to queen Adelaide 1832; exhibited 26 pictures at R.A. 36 at B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. 1816–74; employed in decorating the mansions of the nobility; carried on a life-drawing school at his house in Grafton st. Bond st.; invented a medium which when mixed with oil produced a dull fresco-like surface, this was widely known as Parris’s medium; illustrated the Counte of Ble ing ton’s The confe ions of an elderly gentleman 1836, her Flowers of loveline 1836, and her The confe ions of an elderly lady 1838; also Gems of Beauty 1838 etc. d. 27 Francis st. Bedford sq. London 27 Nov. 1873. I.L.N. 24 Dec. 1853 portrait xxix , 145, 146 (1856) portrait , lxiii 543, 564, 587 (1873) portrait .