Sir Egerton Bushe Coghill NEAC, 5th Baronet (1853–1921) was an Irish painter whose work centred on the landscape of West Cork, particularly around Castletownshend where he was born. He was elected to the NEAC in 1889.
Egerton was the second son of Sir John Joscelyn Coghill, 4th Baronet, and the Hon. Katherine Frances Plunket. He initially trained as an engineer before turning to painting, studying first in Düsseldorf and later at the Académie Julian in Paris. He also spent time in Barbizon in 1883–84 before returning to Ireland.
Coghill’s work is closely associated with the landscape around Castletownshend, where he lived for most of his life. He painted mostly landscapes and preferred to work quietly at home rather than engage with the competitive London art world, although he became a member of the New English Art Club.
He exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1882 to 1919, showed once at the Paris Salon in 1886, and contributed to the Liverpool Autumn Exhibitions at the Walker Art Gallery. His work is represented in the Crawford Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Ireland and the Ashmolean Museum, which held a retrospective of his paintings in 1964. A smaller exhibition followed in London in 1965, and the Egerton Coghill Landscape Prize at the University of Oxford was later established in his memory.
Coghill died during a visit to England in 1921 and was reinterred in Castletownshend in 1923, close to the landscape that shaped his work.