And the Prayer of Faith Shall save the Sick (Epistle of St. James, verse 15)

John Frederick Lewis

Signed and dated 1872 bottom right

Watercolour and bodycolour

23 1/8 x 18

Provenance: William Quilter; Edward Steinkopf

The oil paijnting of this subject was exhibted at the 1872 Royal Academy (242) and is now in the Mellon Collection.

  • Orientalist painters

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