An Eastern Beauty by John Frederick Lewis

An Eastern Beauty

John Frederick Lewis

Before 1851

Watercolour, red and black chalks over pencil heightened with bodycolour

25 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches, 64.7 x 49 centimetres

Provenance:Sotheby's London, 20th February 1946, lot 126 R A Walker Esq

Orientalist painters

References

"Mssrs Agnew annual exhibition of selected watercolour drawings by the English masters." The World, 24 February 1897.

A Century of Master Drawings, Watercolours, and Works in Egg Tempera. London: Peter Nahum, nd. Plate number 8.

Lewis, Major-General Michael. John Frederick Lewis. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis Publishers, 1978, P. 87, cat. no. 473.

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