Edwin Howland Blashfield (December 5 1848 - 1936), American artist, was born in New York City.

He was a pupil of Bonnat in Paris, and became (1888) a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. For some years a genre painter , he later turned to decorative work, marked by rare delicacy and beauty of coloring. He painted mural decorations for a dome in the manufacturer's building at the Chicago Exposition of 1893 ; for the dome of the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.; for the capitol at St Paul, Minnesota; for the Baltimore court-house; in New York City for the Appellate court house, the grand ball-room of the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, the Lawyers' club, and the residences of WK Vanderbilt and Collis P. Huntington; and in Philadelphia for the residence of George W. Drexel .

With his wife he wrote Italian Cities (1900) and edited Vasari's Lives of the Painters (1896), and was well known as a lecturer and writer on art. He became president of the Society of Mural Painters , and of the Society of American Artists .