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John Frederick Lewis
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(1805–1876) English artist who specialized in watercolours to meet the Victorian demand for 'oriental' subjects. He began his career drawing and etching animals, but by 1827 had turned to topographical scenes. In that year he made a sketching tour on the continent. Far more significant was his first visit to Spain and Morocco (1832-4). The paintings resulting from this journey caused him to become known as 'Spanish Lewis'. In 1837 he again went abroad and was not to return for thirteen years. After travelling through Italy and Greece to Constantinople, he took a boat to Egypt where he settled (and married an English woman, in 1847). After his return with his wife to England, in 1851, he produced - both in watercolour and oil - numerous detailed scenes of life in bazaars and mosques and even, from imagination, within the harem.
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