biography of Edwin PERCIVAL (1793-?)

Birth place: Kensington, CT

Death place: Troy, NY

Addresses: Albany and Troy, NY

Profession: Portrait, historical, and landscape painter

Studied: Hartford, CT, 1830

Exhibited: PAFA, 1832

Comments: Went to Albany (NY) in 1833 and began partnership with Henry Bryant. Groce & Wallace report that Percival later went to Troy (NY) where he became depressed and is said to have literally starved himself to death. Brother of James Gates Percival, poet and scholar.

Sources: G&W; French, Art and Artists in Connecticut, 55; Rutledge, PA; Fielding, Supplement to Stauffer, no. 509.