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. 

 
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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