The British artist John Frederick Lewis painted impressive colourful paintings with everyday impressions of the Mediterranean and the Far East. He was born in 1804 in the metropolis of London. As the son of a copper engraver and landscape painter, he was able to look over his father's shoulder as a child while he produced artistic paintings. In addition, he trained his talent together with the neighboring boy and later animal painter Edwin Landseer. In many later works, therefore, animals appeared, for example in "The Lioness" (1824), "Twelve Domesticated Animals" (1826), or "Spanish Couple Riding a Mule" (1832).
John Frederick Lewis showed himself to be very fond of travelling from 1827 and visited several European countries while painting with watercolours. From 1832 onwards, his thirst to get to know other cultures led him to Spain, Morocco, Greece and then to Constantinople. By the time he finally settled in Cairo for ten years in 1841, he had become an important painter of Orientalism. He lived in a traditional but distinguished house in the turbulent city, which served as a background landscape in his works several times. He adapted his personal lifestyle to the oriental culture. His friend and satirist William Makepeace Thackeray, who visited him, described him as ponderous, dreamy and a cigarette-smoking villager. After his return from Egypt, Lewis lived in Walton-on-Thames, England, from 1854, where he died in 1876. His enthusiasm for oriental life remained very much alive in him to the end and he transformed many of the drawings he had made in Cairo into colour paintings. One of his most important paintings was exhibited in London and was highly praised by critics. It is "The Hareem" (1850) and was painted by Lewis during his last two years under the sun of Egypt.
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.jpg "A Jewish Woman of Gibraltar, from ‘Sketches of Spain’, engraved by Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789-1850), published 1836 by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Greek Girl Standing on a Balcony by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Florence: The Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Study for The Courtyard of the Coptic Patriarchs House in Cairo by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Great Mosque at Brussa, plate 24 from „Illustrations of Constantinople“, engraved by the artist, published 1838 by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Greek Girl, plate 16 from “Illustrations of Constantinople”, engraved by the artist, 1837 by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Halt in the Desert by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "An Eastern Girl Carrying a Tray, 1859 by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Study of Camels with Bedouin Drivers in the Desert of Mount Sinai by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Intercepted Correspondence by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "And the Prayer of Faith Shall Save the Sick by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "La Puerta del Sol, Madrid, from")
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.jpg "The Harem, Plate 1 from")
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.jpg "On the Banks of the Nile, Upper Egypt by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Levantine Lady in Turkish Dress, Constantinople by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Valley of Lutscheuen by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "In the Garden of Beis by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Sheik Hussein of Gebel Tor and His Son by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Street in Cairo by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Roman Pilgrims by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Caravan - An Arab Encampment at Edfou by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Highland Hospitality by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Courtyard of the Painter")
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.jpg "Venice - The Grand Canal and Rialto by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Study for the Proclamation of Don Carlos, 1834-1838 by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Bedouin Encampment; or, Bedouin Arabs by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Coffee Bearer by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Temple of Edfou, Upper Egypt by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Study of a Lioness by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Sketches of a Trip to Spain: Plaza de San Francisco, Seville by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Doubtful Coin by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Midday Meal, Cairo by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Favourite of the Harem by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Great Doorway of the Mosque of Santa Sophia, Constantinople by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Tyrolese Hunters by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Gray Mare and a Chestnut Foal by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Greek Girl Standing on a Balcony by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Study of a Crouching Fox, Facing Right by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Valley of Lutscheuen by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Temple of Edfu: The Door of the Pylon by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Reception by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Fakir at the Door of a Mosque, Constantinople by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Two Camels, ca. 1843 by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Greetings in the Desert, Egypt by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Harem by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Sketch for Foresters Stalking Deer by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Via Mala by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Frank Encampment in the Desert of Mount Sinai, 1842 by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Study for the Proclamation of Don Carlos by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Head of a Fox by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Sheik Hussein of Gebel Tor and His Son by John Frederick Lewis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-557758).jpg "A Turkish Girl, 1863 by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "St. Goarhausen on the Rhine between Koblenz and Mainz by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Bedouin Encampment; or, Bedouin Arabs by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Halt in the Desert by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Street Scene in Granada on the Day of the Bullfight by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Harem by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Pool and Scottish River by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Study of a Crouching Fox, Facing Right by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Game Keeper and Boy Ferreting a Rabbit by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Via Mala by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Interior of an Eastern House by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Street Scene in Granada on the Day of the Bullfight by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "St. Goarhausen on the Rhine between Koblenz and Mainz by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Venice: The Grand Canal and Rialto by John Frederick Lewis")
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