Edward Reginald Frampton was a British painter known mainly for murals, especially war memorials in churches. Born in the early 1870s, he worked in a period when mural decoration was closely tied to architecture, and his work is significant for treating painting as part of a building's design.
Early in his career he painted landscapes, but after a long stay in France and Italy and after seeing an exhibition of the collected works of Edward Burne-Jones, he turned to the human figure, which is the subject of all his larger and more important compositions. He saw his own work as influenced by early Italian painting, English Pre-Raphaelite design and the compositions of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. His flat, stately style used diffused light with almost no high lights or cast shadows, aiming at the decorative effect suited to mural backgrounds. He also worked in stained glass, probably learning from his father, Edward Frampton, and made sculpture early on. He died in Paris on 4 November 1923.
His legacy rests on these symbolic mural paintings, including a large panel of St. Brendan encountering Judas Iscariot on the iceberg, which recalls Spencer Stanhope's The Waters of Lethe.