A Cairo Bazaar

Artist: John Frederick Lewis
Title: A Cairo Bazaar, 1875
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British Orientalist

A Cairo Bazaar, which was painted one year before John Frederick Lewis died. Highly detailed in execution, it teams with life and is reminiscent of the colorful, exotic city in which he had spent about 10 years of his life.

John Frederick Lewis had lived in a grand merchant’s house close to both the Mosque of Sultan Hassan and to the shady, narrow courtyards of the souk. In this watercolor a tall, elegantly dressed merchant laden with the fine treasures of the bazaar barters for an exquisitely embroidered cloth. In some ways, this figure can be seen as a mirror of the artist himself, who lived, according to William Thackery, like an ‘Oriental Prince’. After his visit to Cairo, Thackery wrote: Frederick is going about with a great beard and crooked sword, dressed up like an odious Turk.
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The Pipe Bearer

Artist: John Frederick Lewis
Title: The Pipe Bearer
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Medium: oil on panel
Size: 43.2 cm x 30.5 cm

Thanks to Hermes from Golden Age Paintings to point this painting out.

A Young Woman from Bursa

Artist: John Frederick Lewis
Title: A Young Woman from Bursa 1840
Signed in pencil, lower right J.F.Lewis/Brussa
Medium: Watercolour, heightened in white, black chalk
Size: 164.2 x 105.9 in /(417 x 269cm)

Greetings in the Desert

Artist: John Frederick Lewis (1805-1876/British)
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Title: Greetings in the Desert, Egypt, 1855
Medium: Oil on wood panel
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Camel, West Thebes

Artist: John Frederick Lewis
Title: Camel, West Thebes
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A Turkish School

Artist: john Frederick Lewis
Title: A Turkish School
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Bezestein Bazaar, El Khankhali, Cairo

Artist: John Frederick Lewis
Title: Bezestein Bazaar, El Khankhali, Cairo,1872
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Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 44 1/2 x 33 1/2 inches

Coffehouse in Cairo

Artist: John Frederick Lewis
Title: Coffehouse in Cairo
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Almeh flirting with Armenian Policeman

Artist: John Frederick Bridgman
Title: Almeh flirting with Armenian Policeman
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Home of the Artist in Cairo

Artist: John Frederick Lewis
Title: Home of the Artist in Cairo, 1851
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Medium: Watercolor
Size: 97,5 × 126 cm
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The Hosh Courtyard of the Coptic Patriarch, Cairo

Artist: John Frederick Lewis
Title: The Hosh Courtyard of the Coptic Patriarch, Cairo, 1864
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The Reception

Artist: John Frederick Lewis
Title: The Reception, 1873
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Street and Mosque at Ghooreyah, Cairo

Artist: John Frederick Lewis
Title: Street and Mosque at Ghooreyah, Cairo
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Study of Spanish Figures

Artist: john Frederick Lewis
Title: Study of Spanish Figures
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Eastern Beauty

Artist: John Frederick Lewis
Title: Eastern Beauty
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Medium: Watercolor
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Women

Artist: John Frederick Lewis
Title: Women
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Tomb of the Sultan

Artist: John Frederick Lewis
Title: Tomb of the Sultan
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Head of a Fox

Artist: John Frederick Lewis
Title: Head of a Fox
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Medium: Watercolor
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A Pulpit in the Cathedral of Salerno

Artist: John Frederick Lewis
Title: A Pulpit in the Cathedral of Salerno
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Medium: Pencil and chalk on paper
Size: 178 x 260 mm
American Orientalist

Study for The Courtyard of the Coptic Patriarch House, Cairo

Artist: John Frederick Lewis
Title: Study for The Courtyard of the Coptic Patriarch House in Cairo 1864
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Medium: Oil on wood
Size: 368 x 356 mm

The Coptic Church is the ancient Orthodox Christian Church of Egypt. This study of the patriarch’s house was executed after Lewis’s return from Egypt in 1851, using the sketches he brought back. This work highlights Lewis’s ability to paint figures and setting with careful attention to light and shade, produced here by the top-lit courtyard.Lewis caused a sensation when he exhibited one of his Near Eastern scenes in London in 1850. John Ruskin admired his attention to detail, claiming that in truth-to-nature he ranked alongside the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.