HOLT, Edwin Frederick
(b. 1830 Hampstead, d. 1912 Dunstable)
English painter. He was born in Hampstead in 1830 and lived most of his adult life in Dunstable. He studied at the Royal Academy of Art, where he won the silver medal in 1854. He exhibited seven pictures at the Royal Academy, twelve at the British Institution and forty at the Royal Society of British Artists.
Holt painted mythological, biblical, historical and genre subjects. Later in his career, he devoted his attention to animals and painted many sporting subjects, farm animals and domestic pets. Much of his later work is characterised by a bold painterly style.
