Edward Wilkins Waite (1854–1924) was an English landscape painter associated with Surrey and the rural south of England. Born in Leatherhead, Surrey, into a family with artistic interests, he was the son of the Revd Edward Waite. He spent some time in Canada in the 1870s before pursuing painting professionally.
Waite exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1878 and became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. His subjects included cottages, wooded lanes, ponds, gardens and farm buildings, often painted with careful attention to reflected light and the changing seasons.
The House by the Pond is typical of his interest in quiet country settings. He lived at various times in Surrey, Berkshire and Sussex, where the landscape offered a steady source of subjects.
Waite came from an unusually artistic family: several brothers also became painters, while other relatives pursued music. He himself played the violin. His work reflects the appeal of intimate rural views in late Victorian and Edwardian art. He died in Fittleworth, Sussex, in 1924.
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