Edmund Ashfield

( fl from 1660; d 1690). English painter and pastellist. He worked in London and was probably from a Buckinghamshire family. His cousin Sir Thomas Lawrence described Ashfield as an 'ingenious painter' in a speech at Oxford on 11 July 1669. He trained under the portrait painter John Michael Wright and copied in oils portraits by Lely, van Dyck and others, examples of which survive in the Bodleian Library and Merton College, Oxford.

See the Abbreviations for further details.