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 "Study for The Courtyard of the Coptic Patriarch")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-218256).jpg "The Bazaar, Cairo, 1872 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 "Greek Girl, Plate 16 from")
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.jpg "An Eastern Girl Carrying a Tray, 1859 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 "A Frank Encampment in the Desert of Mount Sinai, 1842 by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Frank Encampment in the Desert of Mount Sinai. 1842 - The Convent of St. Catherine in the Distance by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Tyrolese Hunters by John Frederick Lewis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-382557).jpg "The Noonday Halt by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Harem by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Fountain of the Lions, from the Hall of the Abencerrajes, from")
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.jpg "Courtyard of the Painter")
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.jpg "A Bedouin Encampment; or, Bedouin Arabs by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Prior, from Sketches of Spain, engraved by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, published 1836 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 "Window in the Hall of Ambassadors, from Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra, 1835 by John Frederick Lewis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-89525).jpg "Interior of a School, Cairo by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Head of an Italian Girl in a Mantilla by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Harem, 1876 by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Harem, Plate 1 from")
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.jpg "Tyrolese Hunters by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Lioness, c.1824-27 by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Temple of Edfou, Upper Egypt by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Life in the Harem, Cairo by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Turkish Outpost, 1850 by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Intercepted Correspondence by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Bedouin Encampment; or, Bedouin Arabs by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Favourite of the Harem by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Monk Praying at a Christian Altar in the Mosque, from")
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.jpg "Greetings in the Desert, Egypt by John Frederick Lewis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-565897).jpg "The Pipe Bearer, 1859 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 "Two Camels, ca. 1843 by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Arab and Camel by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Prayer of the Faithful Shall Cure the Sick by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Pipe Bearer, 1856 by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Temple of Edfou, Upper Egypt by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Head Keeper, Windsor Castle, 1826 by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Valley of Lutscheuen 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 "On the Banks of the Nile, Upper Egypt by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Lilium Auratum 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 "Street Scene near the El Ghouri Mosque in Cairo by John Frederick Lewis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-896491).jpg "And the Prayer of Faith Shall Save the Sick by John Frederick Lewis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-558652).jpg "The Escorial, Madrid by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Interior of an Eastern House by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Head of an Italian Girl in a Mantilla, 1838 by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Frank Encampment in the Desert of Mount Sinai. 1842 - The Convent of St. Catherine in the Distance 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 "Iskander Bey and his Servant by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Doubtful Coin by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "On the Banks of the Nile, Upper Egypt by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Bedouin Encampment; or, Bedouin Arabs by John Frederick Lewis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-558657).jpg "The Hypaethral Temple at Philae by John Frederick Lewis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1453729).jpg "A Corfiote Warrior, Seated by John Frederick Lewis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-312610).jpg "Hhareem Life - Constantinople by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Study of a Lion and Study of a Lioness Head by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "A Turkish Araba Drawn by Two White Oxen, Constantinople by John Frederick Lewis")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1133527).jpg "The Sacristy of Toledo Cathedral by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Entrance to the Harem by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Harem by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "The Via Mala by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Religious Procession, Seville by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Spanish Peasants Dancing the Bolero by John Frederick Lewis")
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.jpg "Game Keeper and Boy Ferreting a Rabbit by John Frederick Lewis")
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