Frederick Charles Vipont Ede, born on February 22, 1865, in Nottoway, Virginia, studied art before moving to Paris, where he became a pupil of the renowned academic painters Tony Robert-Fleury and William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Very little is known of his career, as he appears to have spent most of it in France. He did, however, receive significant recognition in the 1890s; a landscape he exhibited in Montreal in 1891 won a first prize, and he was awarded a medal from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Despite this early success, his work was seldom exhibited in America subsequently. The few extant paintings reveal a competent, delicate, and subtle painter whose work overflows with a wonderful *plein air* freshness and a style that recalls that of his American contemporary, Dennis Miller Bunker. Other than his influential French teachers, the specific influences on Ede’s distinctive style remain unknown.