Edward Beyer (1820–1865), originally Eduard Beyer, was a noted German pastoral and landscape artist of the Antebellum Era (1781–1860) and an artist of the American South and New England. He was born in the Rhineland of Germany, and was a graduate of the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, or the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied 1837 and 1838 under Josef Wintergerst und Rudolf Wiegmann. He first traveled to America in 1848 with his wife, settling in New Jersey and later in Pennsylvania. He visited Virginia in 1854 and stayed until about 1856 or 1857 sketching and painting a number of scenes that would appear in his "Album of Virginia", after the publication of which he returned to Germany.