John Frederick Lewis
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John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876) 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.
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A photo from the late 1860s
A Frank Encampment in the Desert of Mount Sinai - 1842 - The Convent of St. Catherine in the Distance, showing English aristocrats on a tour, watercolour, 1856![The Reception, 1873, version in oils, using drawings of Lewis' house in Cairo, which he had left over 20 years before[4]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/John_Frederick_Lewis_-_A_Lady_Receiving_Visitors_%28The_Reception%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/1280px-John_Frederick_Lewis_-_A_Lady_Receiving_Visitors_%28The_Reception%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
The Reception, 1873, version in oils, using drawings of Lewis' house in Cairo, which he had left over 20 years before[4]
An Armenian lady, Cairo - The love missive, 46 × 35 cm, oil on panel, 1855. The young woman in the background was reworked as a standalone subject in The Coffee Bearer, two years later.
The Coffee Bearer, oil (1857)
The Harem - Introduction of an Abyssinian Slave, 1860s version
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John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876) 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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