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Edwin Lord Weeks
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.
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Painting ID:: 62007
Study of a Warrior.
Oil on canvas. 18.5 x 12.5 in. (46.9 x 31.7 cm). Courtesy Mark Murray Fine Paintings, NY.
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Painting ID:: 62008
Gate of the Fortress at Agra, India
Oil on canvas. 36 x 29 in. (91.4 x 73.7 cm). The Abraham Lincoln Foundation of the Union League of Philadelphia.
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Painting ID:: 62013
Great Mogul and his Court Returning from the Great Mosque at Delhi, India
ca. 1886. Oil on canvas. 33.6 x 54.25 in. (85.4 x 137.8 cm). Protland Museum of Art, ME. Gift of Marion R. Weeks in Memory of Dr. Stephen Holmes Weeks, 1918.1.
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Painting ID:: 70972
Study of a Moor in Blue
ca. 1878(1878)
Oil on canvas board
49.6 x 32.1 cm (19.53 x 12.64 in)
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Painting ID:: 71001
The Old Blue-Tiled Mosque Outside of Delhi, India
ca. 1885(1885)
Oil on canvas
79.6 x 64.8 cm (31.34 x 25.51 in)
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Edwin Lord Weeks
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: | James Gay Sawkins | Martinus Rorbye | Joseph Paelinck | POST, Pieter Jansz | F.P.Henningsen |
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