Artist: Edwin Lord Weeks Painting: On the River Ganges, Benares Introduction: 1883. Oil on canvas. 28.25 x 39.25 in. ( 73 x 99.7 cm ). Collection of Jerald Dillon Fessenden.
The Old Blue-Tiled Mosque, Outside of Delhi, India Painting ID:: 61864
Artist: Edwin Lord Weeks Painting: The Old Blue-Tiled Mosque, Outside of Delhi, India Introduction: Oil on canvas. 31.05 x 25.25 in. ( 78.9 x 64.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY. Gift of George D. Pratt.
American Academic Painter, 1849-1903, American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Leon Bonnat and of Jean-Leon Gerome, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes. In 1895 he wrote and illustrated a book of travels, From the Black Sea through Persia and India, and two years later he published Episodes of Mountaineering. He died in November 1903. He was a member of the Legion d'honneur, France, an officer of the Order of St. Michael, Germany, and a member of the Secession, Munich.
. Related Artists to Edwin Lord Weeks : | Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein | George M Bruestle | Jan van den Hecke | Gustave Guillaumet | William Aikman |