biography of Edward WALSH (1756-1832)

Profession: Topographical painter in watercolors

Work: Clements Library, Univ. of Michigan

Comments: He was a surgeon attached to the 49th Regiment of the British Army, stationed near Niagara Falls for several years before the War of 1812. He made a number of watercolor views of Lake Erie and Buffalo Creek (NY), one of which was engraved in aquatint and published in London in 1811. On June 22, 1804, he made a painting of the Detroit settlement, from a point on the Canadian side of the Detroit River.

Sources: G&W; Stokes, Historical Prints, 53. More recently, see, Gibson, Artists of Early Michigan, 235.