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Av alla originalverk som John Frederick Lewis lämnade efter sig är det mest kända Interior of the Residence of the Pasha, New Orsova (1838). Tätt efter följer Lilium Auratum (1871) och John Clark with the Animals at Sandpit Gate (1825). Vår katalog innehåller 263 verk av John Frederick Lewis; galleriet har bevarat de 100 som världen beundrar mest, var och en presenterad med sitt datum, sitt museum och sin historia.
Interior of the Residence of the Pasha, New Orsova is a work by John Frederick Lewis, executed in 1838. This piece belongs to the Orientalism style, reflecting the artist's engagement with the domestic and architectural realities of the Ottoman-influenced regions he encountered during his travels.
John Frederick Lewis's "Lilium Auratum," painted in 1871, is more than just a depiction of two women amidst a profusion of flowers; it’s a meticulously crafted window into the opulent sensibilities and burgeoning Orientalist movement of Victorian England. This captivating work, housed within the broader context of Lewis’s extensive travels through the Mediterranean and North Africa, offers a rare glimpse into a world of leisure, beauty, and carefully constructed narratives.…
In the lush, verdant expanse of Windsor Great Park, specifically at the historic Sandpit Gate, John Frederick Lewis captures a moment that transcends mere landscape painting to become a profound tableau of 19-century British life. Completed around 1825, John Clark with the Animals at Sandpit Gate is much more than a portrait of a man; it is an exquisite celebration of the harmonious, albeit curated, relationship between humanity and the…
In A Gondolier, Venice by John Frederick Lewis, the viewer is placed at eye level, standing upon a quay as if sharing a quiet moment of repose. The composition is vertically oriented, drawing the eye upward from the immediate foreground toward the historic architecture of the city. A man stands prominently in the foreground, positioned slightly off-center to the right, his presence grounding the scene. At his feet, a resting…
The engraving titled Return of the Sultan Mahmoud from the Mosque was created by the artist John Frederick Lewis. This work is a monochromatic print produced through the technique of incising lines into a metal plate, such as copper or steel, to create the final image on paper. The piece dates to about 1838.
This monochromatic engraving, titled Sketches of a trip to Spain: Capilla de Villaviciosa, offers a quiet glimpse into the architectural history of Spain. Created by the English artist John Frederick Lewis, the work dates to 1836. It emerged from a period when Lewis was deeply engaged with the Mediterranean, specifically during his travels through Spain and Morocco between 1832 and 1834.
The scene unfolds within the quietude of a Bulgarian village, a moment captured by the artist John Frederick Lewis in 1838. This work presents a detailed view of a rural settlement, where the architecture of the period takes center stage. A traditional building with a distinctive overhanging roof dominates the view, anchoring the composition amidst a landscape of rolling hills. The atmosphere feels still, as if the viewer has stumbled…
The Port of Constantinople is a work by the English Orientalist painter John Frederick Lewis, dating to about 1838. Born in London, United Kingdom, Lewis developed a specialized focus on Mediterranean and Oriental scenes, often capturing the architectural and maritime life of the Ottoman Empire. This particular piece reflects his interest in the topographical details of the region during his travels.
In Sweet Waters (in Asia), John Frederick Lewis organizes a quiet, observational landscape that draws the eye through a series of layered planes. The central focus is an ornate pavilion, positioned slightly off-center to create a natural, unforced balance. To the left, a body of water occupies a significant portion of the frame, its surface broken only by the presence of a small boat. This aquatic element provides a sense…
is a work by the English artist John Frederick Lewis. Created about 1838, this piece reflects the artist's engagement with the Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds during a period of significant travel and stylistic development.
A Café on the Bosphorus1838
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New Orsova; Exterior of the Pasha'a Residence1838
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Yeni Jami, (or Mosque of the New Tomb)1838
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Tophana1838
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Asking for Alms1833
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Portrait of John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby1841
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Easter Day at Rome1840
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Sheik Hussein of Gebel Tor and His Son1843 · Yale Center for British Art
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The Pipe Bearer1856 · Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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A Syrian Sheik, Egypt1856 · Fitzwilliam Museum
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The Doubtful Coin1869 · Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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The Harem1876 · Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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On the Banks of the Nile, Upper Egypt1876 · Yale Center for British Art
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Arabian Nights1876
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Seated Turk1841 · Yale Center for British Art
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Arab School1851 · Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Study of a Lion and Study of a Lioness' Head1820 · Yale Center for British Art
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The Courtyard of the Coptic Patriarch's House in Cairo1864 · Tate Britain
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Girl with Two Caged Doves
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Highland Hospitality
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A Head Keeper, Windsor Castle1826 · Yale Center for British Art
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The Bazaar of the Ghûriyah from the Steps of the Mosque of El-Ghûri, Cairo
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A Street Scene in Granada on the Day of the Bullfight1833 · Yale Center for British Art
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A View Of The Street And Morque Of Ghorreyah, Cairo
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The Siesta
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Head of a cow
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The Ramesseum at Thebes1851 · Yale Center for British Art
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?A Sketch for `Foresters Stalking Deer'1824 · Yale Center for British Art
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The Head of a Tigress (felis Tigris). Etching with Engraving1825
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Saint Sophia and Distant View of Sultan Achmet (mosques)1838
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A Turkish Araba Drawn by Two White Oxen1841 · Yale Center for British Art
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Seraglio Point1838
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Artillery Barracks, Tophana1838
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An Interior1834
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Four Women in ann Interior, Brussa, Turkey1841
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The Harem Introduction of an Abyssinian slave1860
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An Intercepted Correspondence1869
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Interior of An Eastern House1851 · Yale Center for British Art
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Study for the Proclamation of Don Carlos1838 · Yale Center for British Art
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A hunting scene
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Self-portrait sketch 1
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Portrait sketch of Mrs Birch
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Face of a lion
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Self-portrait of the artist as a boy
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Head of a lioness 1
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Sleeping Lion 1
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Head of a man in profile
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A hunting scene in winter
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Portrait sketch of Edwin Landseer
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Portrait drawing of the artist's grandmother
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J.F. Lewis by himself on the Rhine
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Earl Grey and his daughter Lady Elizabeth Bulteel
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A group of three figures, one kneeling, possibly before a shrine
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A sleeping child
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A huntsman with dead deer
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Head and shoulders of a young woman
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Sheet of rough sketches including a caricature of a monk's head
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A woman seated in a rustic interior
69
A farm horse
70
Puma and pug at Exeter Change
71
Scutari
72
Portrait sketch of Charles George Lewis
73
A sleeping lion
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A lion at the 'Old Exeter Change'
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Sleeping Lion
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A lioness at the Old Exeter Change
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Great Mosque at Brusa
78
A man and a boy in rustic dress
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A lioness
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Sleeping Lion and Lioness
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A man sawing timber
82
The Leaning Tower of Saragoza
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J. F. Lewis by himself
84
A young girl
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Contrabandistas1836 · British Museum
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At Uncle Charles the Binder
87
Windsor Castle
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Fountain from the Gate of the Seraglio
89
Mule and Muleteer
90
Head of a lion 1
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Cannon Foundry, Tophane
92
Head of a cat
93
The Coffee BearerManchester Art Gallery
94
Farm workers resting
95
The entrance to the Great Mosque at Bursa, Turkey
96
Portrait
97
Brusa
98
Study of three Turks at Bursa
99
Arab School
100
A Halt in the Desert
De fyra motiv som återkommer oftast i dessa originalverk, var och ett med sitt främsta exempel.
De 8 museer som innehar flest av målningarna på denna sida.
| Museum | Stad | Verk av John Frederick Lewis | Målningar från denna lista |
|---|---|---|---|
 Yale Center for British Art |
New Haven | 28 | Sheik Hussein of Gebel Tor and His Son, On the Banks of the Nile, Upper Egypt, Seated Turk |
 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
Birmingham | 4 | The Pipe Bearer, The Doubtful Coin, The Harem |
 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
New York | 3 | Arab School |
 Tate Britain |
London | 2 | The Courtyard of the Coptic Patriarch's House in Cairo |
 British Museum |
London | 2 | Contrabandistas |
 Birmingham Museums And Art Gallery |
Birmingham | 1 | Lilium Auratum |
 Royal Collection |
London | 1 | John Clark with the Animals at Sandpit Gate |
 Fitzwilliam Museum |
1 | A Syrian Sheik, Egypt |
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In the lush, verdant expanse of Windsor Great Park, specifically at the historic Sandpit Gate, John Frederick Lewis captures a moment that transcends mere landscape painting to become a profound tableau of 19-century British life. Completed around 1825, John Clark with the Animals at Sandpit Gate is much more than a portrait of a man; it is an exquisite celebration of the harmonious, albeit curated, relationship between humanity and the…
Interior of the Residence of the Pasha, New Orsova is a work by John Frederick Lewis, executed in 1838. This piece belongs to the Orientalism style, reflecting the artist's engagement with the domestic and architectural realities of the Ottoman-influenced regions he encountered during his travels.
The Portrait of John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby is a work by the artist John Frederick Lewis. Created in 1841, the portrait captures a man of significant standing. The subject, John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby, lived from 1770 to 1855. He sits within the frame, a figure of quiet authority held in the artist's steady gaze.
The Pipe Bearer is an oil painting by John Frederick Lewis, executed about 1856. The work originates from the artist's period of intense engagement with Orientalist themes, a phase shaped by his extensive travels and residence in Cairo. This specific composition captures a moment of quietude within a Middle Eastern or North African setting.
The Doubtful Coin is an oil painting by John Frederick Lewis, executed about 1869. The artist, who was born in London, United Kingdom, produced this work during a period of his career focused on detailed genre scenes. Lewis lived in London until his death in 1876.
John Frederick Lewis's "Lilium Auratum," painted in 1871, is more than just a depiction of two women amidst a profusion of flowers; it’s a meticulously crafted window into the opulent sensibilities and burgeoning Orientalist movement of Victorian England. This captivating work, housed within the broader context of Lewis’s extensive travels through the Mediterranean and North Africa, offers a rare glimpse into a world of leisure, beauty, and carefully constructed narratives.…
Interior of the Residence of the Pasha, New Orsova (1838). Därefter följer Lilium Auratum (1871) och John Clark with the Animals at Sandpit Gate (1825).
33 år gammal: Interior of the Residence of the Pasha, New Orsova är från 1838, och John Frederick Lewis föddes 1805.
Interior of the Residence of the Pasha, New Orsova, Lilium Auratum, John Clark with the Animals at Sandpit Gate, A Gondolier, Venice, Return of the Sultan Mahmoud from the Mosque, Sketches of a trip to Spain: Capilla de Villaviciosa, Bulgarian Village, the Port of Constantinople, Sweet Waters (in Asia) och Turkish Female. Rankingen ovan visar varje verks årtal och museum.
Vår katalog innehåller 263 verk av John Frederick Lewis, daterade från 1820 till 1876.
Främst i Yale Center for British Art (New Haven), Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (Birmingham) och Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). Museitabellen ovan listar alla.
Under 1830s: 20 av de 100 verk som finns på denna sida skapades då, varav Interior of the Residence of the Pasha, New Orsova.
På den här sidan är det tidigaste Study of a Lion and Study of a Lioness' Head (1820) och det senaste The Harem (1876).
Animals (11), Figures (8) och Buildings (8), fördelat på 100 verk på denna sida.
Watercolor, för 10 av de 100 verk som finns på denna sida.
Orientalist painting, om man dömer efter originalen på denna sida.
Sheik Hussein of Gebel Tor and His Son, On the Banks of the Nile, Upper Egypt och Seated Turk: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven har 11 av verken på denna sida.
John Frederick Lewis, född 14 juli 1804 i London, var en framstående engelsk orientalistmålare som lämnade ett bestående intryck på den europeiska konstvärlden under 1800-talet. Hans far, Frederick Christian Lewis, var en skicklig graverare och landskapsmålare – en familjär bakgrund som oundvikligen formade hans tidiga utveckling. Lewis’s formella utbildning inleddes under Sir Thomas Lawrences vägledning, där han tillsammans med andra konstnärer som Edwin Landseer behärskade teknik och komposition. Denna grundläggande period lade en stark grund för hans framtida konstnärliga resa.
Lewis’s konstnärliga karriär utvecklades genom flera distinkta faser, var och en präglad av förändrade stilar och tematiska fokus. Hans tidiga år i England fokuserade på landskapsmålningar inspirerade av den engelska naturen, men det var hans resor till Mellanöstern som verkligen definierade hans konstnärliga identitet. Han började sin resa genom Europa 1827 och experimenterade med akvarellfärg, vilket ledde till en djupare förståelse för ljus och färg i orientaliska miljöer.
År 1832-1834 företog Lewis en resa till Spanien och Marocko, en upplevelse som förändrade hans konstnärliga syn. Dessa resor blev grunden för ett flertal litografier, publicerade under titlarna “Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra” (1835) och “Lewis’s Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character” (1836). Dessa verk fångade inte bara den spektakulära arkitekturen i Alhambra utan också de lokala människorna, deras kläder och livsstil. Litografierna var ett sätt för Lewis att dela sina observationer med en bredare publik och bidrog till att popularisera intresset för det spanska och marockanska kulturarvet.
Det var under sin tid i Egypten, mellan 1841 och 1851, som Lewis verkligen nådde sin konstnärliga topp. Cairo blev hans bas och inspirationskälla för en rad verk som präglades av en otrolig detaljrikedom och realism. Han skildrade inte bara de imponerande monumenten – Ramesseum, Karnak – utan även vardagslivet i staden, med sina marknader, palats och familjeliv. Lewis lyckades fånga den exotiska atmosfären och de rika färgerna i det egyptiska samhället på ett sätt som få andra konstnärer hade kunnat åstadkomma.
Lewis’s målningar från denna period är särskilt kända för sina realistiska porträtt av egyptiska kvinnor, ofta klädda i utsmyckade dräkter och omgivna av lyxiga interiörer. Han undvek de stereotypa orientalistiska framställningarna som var vanliga vid den tiden och skapade istället bilder som var både poetiska och nyanserade. Hans verk ger en inblick i det egyptiska samhällets rikedomar och komplexitet, samtidigt som de utmanar föreställningar om det exotiska och främmande.
Lewis’s konstnärliga produktion omfattade ett stort antal verk som hyllades för sin noggrannhet och suggestiva atmosfär. Några av hans mest kända målningar inkluderar:
Lewis’s inflytande sträckte sig långt bortom hans egen tid. Han bidrog till att popularisera orientalistisk konst genom sina detaljerade och realistiska representationer av Mellanöstern, vilket inspirerade en hel generation av europeiska konstnärer. Hans verk fortsätter att vara föremål för studier och beundran, inte bara för sin konstnärliga kvalitet utan också för den historiska insikt de ger i 19:e århundradets syn på Orienten.
Lewis’s stil var formad av flera influenser, framför allt Sir Thomas Lawrences betoning på porträtt och komposition. Men hans direkta observationer av Mellanösterns kulturer gjorde att han kunde utveckla en unik estetik präglad av:
John Frederick Lewis dog i Walton-on-Thames den 15 augusti 1876, men hans konstnärliga arv lever vidare genom hans mångfaldiga verk som fortsätter att fascinera och inspirera betraktare än idag.
