N. de Garis Davies
(1881 - 1965)
 

The Egyptologists Nina M. Davies (6 January 1881 – 21 April 1965) and Norman de Garis Davies (1865–5 November 1941) were a married couple of illustrators and copyists who worked in the early and mid-twentieth century drawing and recording paintings in Egypt. Their work was often published together, as N. de Garis Davies, and so it is usually difficult to determine who drew which illustration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._de_Garis_Davies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakht

the tomb chapel of Nakht
ca. 1410–1370 B.C
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/548438

Between 1907 and 1938, under the leadership of British Egyptologist Norman de Garis Davies, the Graphic Section of The Met’s Egyptian Expedition undertook a documentation project with the goal of recording ancient monuments as accurately as possible.

This facsimile painting copies the decoration painted on the left hand wall as one enters the tomb chapel of Nakht (Theban tomb no. 52), a scribe and astronomer who probably lived during the reign of Thutmose IV.

 

 Arthur von Ferraris
(1856- 1936)
 

Arthur von Ferraris was a Hungarian-born artist known for his portraits of society figures of his day and for his "orientalist" paintings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_von_Ferraris

Arriving at the Mosque
Oil on canvas
56 x 70 cm
Mathaf Gallery, London
( sold at Sotheby’s, October 22, 2019)
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/important-works-from-the-najd-collection/arthur-von-ferraris-arriving-at-the-mosque

Willem de Famars Testas
(1834 - 1896)
 

Willem de Famars Testas was a 19th-century Dutch painter, draughtsman, etcher and illustrator noted for his Orientalist paintings and drawings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_de_Famars_Testas

Binnenplaats van een huis te Caïro
(The Courtyard of a house in Cairo)
1868 - 1881
Oil on canvas
84 x 62 cm.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Binnenplaats-van-een-huis-te-Cairo--a38477aa93fbb93e6246f7be9889cdab

John Frederick Lewis
(1804 - 1876)

 

John Frederick Lewis RA was an English Orientalist painter. He specialized in Oriental and Mediterranean scenes in detailed watercolour or oils, very often repeating the same composition in a version in each medium. He lived for several years in a traditional mansion in Cairo, and after his return to England in 1851 he specialized in highly detailed works showing both realistic genre scenes of Middle Eastern life and more idealized scenes in upper-class Egyptian interiors with little apparent Western influence. 

 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frederick_Lewis

 

On the Banks of the Nile, Upper Egypt
1876
Oil on canvas
62.2 x 74.3 cm
Yale Center for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:902

 

Edward Lear
(1812 - 1888)
 

Edward Lear was an English writer and illustrator who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.
His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals, making coloured drawings during his journeys (which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books) and as a minor illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lea

Philae, Egypt
1863
Oil on canvas
27.5 x 53.3 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:173

Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann
(1819 - 1881)
 

Anna Maria Elisabeth Lisinska Jerichau-Baumann  was a Polish-Danish painter. She was married to the sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Jerichau-Baumann

An Egyptian Fellah Woman with her Baby
1872
Oil on canvas
129.2 x 98.5 cm
Statens Museum for Kunst, København, Denmark

Jules Joseph Lefebvre
(1836 - 1911)
 

Jules Joseph Lefebvre was a French painter, educator and theorist. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Joseph_Lefebvre

Servant
Late 19th Century
Oil on canvas
82.5 x 128 cm
Pera Museum: Orientalist Paintings Collection, Istanbul, Türkiye

Eugène Fromentin
(1820 - 1876)
 

Eugène Fromentin was a French painter and writer, born in La Rochelle. After leaving school he studied for some years under Louis Cabat, the landscape painter. Fromentin was one of the earliest pictorial interpreters of Algeria, having been able, while quite young, to visit the land and people that suggested the subjects of most of his works, and to store his memory as well as his portfolio with the picturesque and characteristic details of North African life. His first great success was produced at the Salon of 1847, by the Gorges de la Chiffa. In 1849, he was awarded a medal of the second class.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Fromentin

An Encampment in the Atlas Mountains
C. 1865
Oil on canvas
105 x 143.3cm
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
https://art.thewalters.org/detail/23597/an-encampment-in-the-atlas-mountains/

 Charles Sprague Pearce
(1851 - 1914)
 

Charles Sprague Pearce was an American artist, born in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 1873 he became a pupil of Léon Bonnat in Paris, and after 1885 he lived in Paris and at Auvers-sur-Oise. He painted Egyptian and Algerian scenes, French peasants, and portraits, and also decorative work, notably for the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress at Washington. He received medals at the Paris Salon and elsewhere, and was made Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, decorated with the Order of Leopold, Belgium, the Order of the Red Eagle, Prussia, and the Order of the Dannebrog, Denmark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sprague_Pearce

The Arab Jeweler
C. 1882
Oil on canvas
116.8 x 89.9 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11744

Robert Hawker Dowling
(1827 - 1886)

Robert Hawker Dowling was an Australian colonial artist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hawker_Dowling

A Sheikh and his son entering Cairo on their return from a pilgrimage to Mecca
1874
Oil on canvas
139.3 x 244.5 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/5508/

 Marius Bauer
(1867 - 1932)

Marius Alexander Jacques Bauer was a Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer, best known for his Oriental scenes. His style was largely Impressionistic, although it also derived to some extent from the Hague School. Many of his works were based on photographs he bought during his travels, some of which were by famous photographers such as Félix Bonfils.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Bauer

Berglandschap in Egypte (Mountainous Landscape in Egypt)
c. 1880
Oil on canvas
41 x 61cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/SK-A-2875

Ludwig Deutsch
(1855 - 1935)
 

Ludwig Deutsch was a French painter of Austrian origin, who settled in Paris and became a noted Orientalist artist. Having studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1872 to 1875, he moved to Paris in 1878, where he became associated with other Orientalist painters. Most of his works were painted in his studio in Paris, but he had visited Egypt on several journeys from 1885 to 1898. In 1919, he became a French citizen and started to write his name as Louis Deutsch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Deutsch

The Scribe
1911
oil on canvas
50.8 x 36.8 cm
Private collection. Sold by Sotheby’s, October 22, 2019
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/important-works-from-the-najd-collection/ludwig-deutsch-the-scribe

Gustav Bauernfeind
(1848 - 1904)
 

Gustav Bauernfeind was a German painter, illustrator, and architect. He is considered to be one of the most notable Orientalist painters of Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Bauernfeind

Market in Jaffa
1887
Oil on canvas
82 x 109 cm
Private collection. Sold by Sotheby’s, October 22, 2019
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/important-works-from-the-najd-collection/gustav-bauernfeind-market-in-jaffa

Eugène Girardet
(1853 - 1907)
 

Eugène Alexis Girardet was a French Orientalist painter of Swiss ancestry. In 1898, he visited Egypt and Palestine, producing many works depicting the lives of desert nomads. Unlike other Orientalists, he produced no harem scenes. Upon returning to France, he became a teacher at the Académie Julian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugéne_Girardet

The Water Carriers, Tangier
1878
Oil on canvas
111 x 210 cm
Private collection. Sold by Sotheby’s, March 30, 2021
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/the-orientalist-sale-including-works-from-the-najd-collection/the-water-carriers-tangier

 Michael Zeno Diemer
(1867 - 1939)

Michael Zeno Diemer was a German painter. Now known primarily for his marine paintings and postcard designs, he was initially famous for his panoramic paintings of battles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Zeno_Diemer

The Ahırkapı Lighthouse
Early 20th Century
Oil on canvas
110 x 82.5 cm
Pera Museum: Orientalist Paintings Collection, Istanbul

John Reinhard Weguelin
(1849 - 1927)
 

John Reinhard Weguelin RWS ROI was an English painter and illustrator, active from 1877 to after 1910. He specialized in figurative paintings with lush backgrounds, typically landscapes or garden scenes. Weguelin emulated the neo-classical style of Edward Poynter and Lawrence Alma-Tadema, painting subjects inspired by classical antiquity and mythology. He depicted scenes of everyday life in ancient Greece and Rome, as well as mythological subjects, with an emphasis on pastoral scenes. Weguelin also drew on folklore for inspiration, and painted numerous images of nymphs and mermaids.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reinhard_Weguelin

The Obsequies of an Egyptian Cat
1886
Oil on canvas
99.4 x 142.5 cm
Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tāmaki
https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artwork/11228/the-obsequies-of-an-egyptian-cat

<i>In The Obsequies of an Egyptian Cat, Weguelin depicts a funerary ceremony for a mummified cat. (“Obsequies” is a fancy term for funerary rites.) The cat mummy appears in a shrine in the upper left corner while a priestess kneels before it with incense and offerings. Paintings like those found in ancient Egyptian tombs appear behind her, while a feline goddess statue lurks at the far right.</I>

David Roberts
(1796 - 1864)
 

David Roberts RA RBA was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced from sketches he made during long tours of the region (1838–1840). These and his large oil paintings of similar subjects made him a prominent Orientalist painter. He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1841.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Roberts_(painter)

The Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt
1849
oil on panel
36.8 cm × 54.6 cm
Yale Center for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1018

 Adam Styka
(1890 - 1959)
 

Adam Styka was born in Poland in 1890. He completed his formal education at the French Academy of Fine Arts, Academie de Beau Arts, and painted closely under the tutelage of his father, Jan Styka. Each year Adam exhibited his paintings in the Paris' most prestigious galleries such as Salon de Paris, Champs Des Elysses and others in Europe and countries of both Americas, where he constantly was awarded highest accolades.
After graduating from the French Military Academy in Fontainebleau, Adam served in the French artillery during the World War I. He was decorated with a Cross of Merit. Also as a reward, he was granted the French "Nationality Citizenship" and a special assistance from the French Government to visit French colonies in Northern Africa. As the result of these annual journeys, Adam developed an entire genre of Middle-Eastern and Oriental themes. His exquisite ability of captivating and conveying to his paintings faithfully the vibrating strong colors full of contrast of the hot Sahara Desert of Northern Africa, colors harmoniously blended together, made him a master without compare and earned him the appellation, "The Master of Sunlight". Adam's Western paintings of the American Wild West were regarded by art critics such as Dick Owens, as the best Western paintings whenever painted by any artist. Later years of his life he spent on creating religious painting such as "The Assumption of Virgin Mary" and "The Ascension of Jesus"; all of them are located in the churches of Europe and the United States.
Adam Styka passed away on 23rd of September 1959 and is buried in the Alley of the Merit in the cemetery if the "New Czestochowa" of the Pauline Fathers in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

https://www.stykafamilyart.com/adam.html

El-Seboua, Egypt
Oil on canvas
71 x 88.9 cm
Private collection (sold at Christie’s 28 April 2014
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5786698

Eugen Bracht
(1842 - 1921)
 

Eugen Felix Prosper Bracht  was a German landscape painter. A late Romanticist painter, Bracht was known for his moody landscapes and coastal scenes in North Germany, and began a sketching trip through Syria, Palestine and Egypt from 1880 to 1881. In 1882, he became a Professor of Landscape Painting at the Prussian Academy of Arts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Bracht

In the Arabah Desert
1882
Oil on canvas
121.5 x 200 cm
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany
https://www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/en/kunstwerk/in-the-arabah-desert/

Jean-Léon Gérôme
(1824 - 1904)
 

Jean-Léon Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The range of his works includes historical paintings, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects. He is considered one of the most important painters from the academic period. He was also a teacher with a long list of students. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Léon_Gérôme

The Carpet Merchant
c. 1887
Oil on canvas
86 x 68 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
https://collections.artsmia.org/art/10361/the-carpet-merchant-jean-leon-gerome

Lorenzo Delleani
(1840 - 1908)
 

Lorenzo Delleani was an Italian painter, known primarily for landscapes and genre scenes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Delleani

Egyptian Museum
1871
Oil on canvas
71 x 100 cm
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin

 Lawrence Alma-Tadema
(1836 - 1912)

 

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema OM, RA, RWS was a Dutch painter who later settled in the United Kingdom, becoming the last officially recognised denizen in 1873. Born in Dronryp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in London, England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Alma-Tadema

Cleopatra
1877
Oil on panel
Without frame: 46 x 44,5 cm
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artwork/11458/cleopatra

 

 

Frederic Arthur Bridgman
(1847 - 1928)

 

Frederick Arthur Bridgman was an American artist known for his paintings of "Orientalist" subjects. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Arthur_Bridgman

Cafe at Biskra, Algeria
1884
Oil on canvas
70.2 x 111.8 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/cafe-biskra-algeria-33494

Frederick Goodall
(1822 - 1904)
 

Frederick Goodall was a British artist. He received his education at the Wellington Road Academy.
Goodall's first commission, for Isambard Brunel, was six watercolour paintings of the Thames Tunnel. Four of these were exhibited at the Royal Academy when Goodall was 16. His first oil won a Society of Arts silver medal. He exhibited work at the Royal Academy 27 times between 1838 and 1859. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1852 and a full Royal Academician (RA) in 1863.
Goodall visited Egypt twice; in 1858 and again in 1870, both times travelling and camping with Bedouin tribesmen. On his first visit to Egypt, he shared a house and studio with artist, Carl Haag and the pair often sketched together, both in the streets and outside Cairo, especially in the area around the Pyramids. On his second visit in 1870, he lived at Saqqara, near the Pyramids with the aim of directly observing Bedouin lifestyles. After his return to England, Goodall painted many variations of the same Eastern themes. In order to provide authentic detail to his paintings, Goodall brought back sheep and goats from Egypt. The Egyptian theme was prominent in his work, with 170 paintings being exhibited at the Royal Academy over 46 years.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Goodall

Pastoral Scene near Cairo, Evening
1895
Oil on canvas
109.5 x 56.2 cm
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, United Kingdom
https://rammcollections.org.uk/collections/7bc0c3e1-d38c-3a84-ace6-dba5b54ed5f1/?pos=57

Franklin Dullin Briscoe
(1844 - 1903)

 

Franklin Dullin Briscoe was an American artist born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. He studied with Edward Moran, a notable painter of marines. Briscoe traveled throughout his life, visiting art museums in London, Paris, and other European cities. He preferred to paint seascapes, but also created many portraits and historical paintings, including a mural of the battle of Gettysburg that was more than two hundred feet long.

https://americanart.si.edu/artist/franklin-d-briscoe-578

The Temple of Philae
1873
Oil on canvas
76.8 × 127 cm
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, US
https://collections.discovernewfields.org/art/artwork/16785

Jacques-Laurent Agasse
(1767 – 1849)
 

Jacques-Laurent Agasse was an animal and landscape painter from Switzerland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Laurent_Agasse

The Nubian Giraffe
1827
Oil on canvas
127.3 x 101.7 cm
Royal Collection, UK.
https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/1/collection/404394/the-nubian-giraffe

 

This famous giraffe calf was sent by Mehemet Ali, Pasha of Egypt, to George IV; it arrived in England in August 1827 and was installed at George IV’s menagerie in Windsor but died two years later. In 1827 Agasse painted the entire entourage surrounding this exotic animal: two Egyptian cows who acted as wet-nurses; two Arab keepers and the menagerie owner, Edward Cross (1773-1854), who supervised the giraffe’s brief time in Windsor.

Joseph Farquharson
(1846 - 1935)
 

Joseph Farquharson DL RA was a Scottish painter, chiefly of landscapes in Scotland often including animals. He is most famous for his snowy winter landscapes, often featuring sheep and often depicting dawn or dusk. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and died at Finzean, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Nicknames include "'Frozen Mutton' Farquharson" and "The Painting Laird".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Farquharson

The Orange Seller
c. 1893
Oil on canvas
61,8 x 43,1 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-orange-seller-106912/search/actor:farquharson-joseph-18461935/page/1/view_as/grid

Léon Belly
(1827 - 1877)

 

In 1850–1 he travelled to Greece, Syria, and Egypt. In 1853 he made his debut at the Paris Salon, exhibiting four landscapes of Nablus and Beirut, and of the shores of the Dead Sea, which attracted critical acclaim. In 1855–6 he visited Egypt, travelling up the Nile in the company of another painter, Edouard Imer. A second trip to Egypt in 1856 was largely spent making studies for his painting Pilgrims going to Mecca, now in the Musée d'Orsay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Belly

 

Pèlerins allant à La Mecque (Pilgrims going to Mecca)
1861
Oil on canvas
161 x 242 cm
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/pelerins-allant-la-mecque-9122

Ernst Koerner
(1846 - 1927)

 

Ernst Karl Eugen Koerner was a German landscape painter. His most popular paintings depict Egyptian architecture, often backed by striking, red sunsets. Many of his works show the influence of Eduard Hildebrandt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Koerner

The excavation of the Sphinx
1887
Oil on canvas
101 x 151 cm
Private collection. Sold by Christie’s, 13 July 2017
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6089134

Edwin Long
(1829- 1891)

Edwin Longsden Long RA was a British genre, history, biblical and portrait painter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Long

The Palace Guard
1887
Oil on canvas
132 x 92 cm
Private collection.
Sold at Sotheby’s 3 June 2009
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2009/19th-century-european-paintings-including-german-austrian-central-european-paintings-the-orientalist-sale-spanish-painting-and-the-scandinavian-sale-l09661/lot.57.html