OWEN
,
EDWARD PRYCE
(
1788
-
1863
),
cleric and artist
;
b. in
March 1788
, only son of
archdeacon
Hugh
Owen
(
1761
-
1827
) (q.v.)
. He was educated at
S. John's College
,
Cambridge
(
B.A.
1810
;
M.A.
1816
). He officiated for some time at
Park Street Chapel
,
Grosvenor Square
,
London
, afterwards (
27 Feb. 1823
) becoming
vicar
of
Wellington
, and
rector
of
Eyton-upon-the-Wildmoors
,
Salop
, until
1840
. He travelled extensively in various parts of
Europe
where he made numerous drawings from which he afterwards
produced etchings and pictures in oils
. Some of his pictures, including a few of
Welsh
and
Border Counties
scenes, were exhibited at the
British Institution
and elsewhere in
London
,
1839-53
. Besides contributing several plates to
The History of Shrewsbury
,
1825
, the joint work of his father and
J. B.
Blakeway
, he published
Etchings of Ancient Buildings in Shrewsbury
(
London
,
1820-1
),
Etchings
(
London
,
1826
), and
The Book of Etchings
(
London
, i,
1842
; ii,
1855
). About 2,340 drawings by him, mounted in twelve large folio volumes, are preserved in the
N.L.W.
; they are of interest because they contain such a variety of scenes in
Wales
and the
Border Counties
drawn
c.
1840
. The later years of the
artist
's life were spent at
Bettws Hall, Mont.
He d. at
Cheltenham
on
15 July 1863
.
Bibliography:
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
;
-
Annual Report of the National Library of
Wales
, Aberystwyth
for the years 1910 to 1913
(published
1913
), 90-2;
-
R. Williams
,
Montgomeryshire Worthies
, second ed.,
1894
(2nd ed.).
Author:
Sir William Llewelyn Davies, M.A., LL.D., F.S.A. (1887-1952),
Aberystwyth
