Eduard "Edward" Young was an Austrian painter and draughtsman.

The portraitist, genre and landscape painter Eduard Young was the grandson of an English language teacher who married a woman from Munich in 1784. His father was the opera singer Benno Eduard Young, who died at the age of 34. He received his first training in Linz, and in particular with Moritz Daffinger in Vienna. Young moved in aristocratic circles in Poland and Hungary, traveled to northern Italy and the Lyon region in France. In the 1850s he traveled to Norway and Sweden, but above all he spent several years at the court of Frederick VII, King of Denmark, where he painted portraits of him and his wife in a morganatic marriage, Countess Danner. It is generally assumed that this acquaintance came about through Countess Danner's childhood friend, the famous dancer Lucile Grahn, who in turn was married to Young's brother, the court opera singer Friedrich Young.

Young was appointed professor by Frederick VII and at the same time became a drawing teacher for the king and the countess. On February 9, 1857, he received the Ingenio et arti, a royal gold medal for services to art and science, as well as a lifelong pension. His portraits from the Danish period of Frederick VII and Countess Danner are also of interest as historical evidence of their style of dress. He also contributed to the decoration and furnishing of Jægerspris Castle around 1855.

In 1866 he settled permanently in Munich, where he worked in the studios of Karl Raupp and Carl Theodor von Piloty. Here he mainly created rural genre scenes, but also miniature portraits for King Ludwig II.