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Daniel Thomas Egerton (1797–1842) was a British artist, who was mostly known for his landscape paintings and satirical prints. He was one of the founding members of the Society of British Artists, and exhibited with them in 1824, 1829, 1838 and 1840. He travelled to Mexico several times and gained more fame towards the end of his life from his Views of Mexico, a set of hand coloured lithographs published c. 1840. A year later he would leave his family of a wife and two sons, to move to Mexico with nineteen year old Alice Edwards, the daughter of a befriended British artist. Egerton and Alice were found murdered in the streets of Tacubaya (Mexico City) in April of 1842. The murder was never resolved, as the couple was carrying cash and wearing expensive jewellery, which were strangely left untouched, and Alice was eight months pregnant at the time.
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