Edmund C. Coates

Place: England

Born: 1816

Death: 1871

Biography:

Edmund C. Coates (1816 - 1871) was a versatile nineteenth-century painter from England who spent his adult life in New York City. He was known for creating landscapes, seascapes, portraits, and history paintings. Coates was a frequent exhibitor and had an influential position in the Parliament of England. He was married to Lady Margaret Beaufort and died of the bubonic plague in Carmarthen Castle, Wales, in 1856, two months before the birth of his son, the future Henry VII.