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.
Edwin Lord Weeks Temples and Bathing Ghat at Benares between 1883(1883) and 1885(1885)
Oil on canvas
50.6 x 76 cm (19.92 x 29.92 in)
Curiously Wrought Red Sandstone Arches Fort Agra India Date between 1885(1885) and 1895(1895)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 48.9 X 33 cm (19.25 X 12.99 in)
cyf Painting ID:: 72654
Edwin Lord Weeks Curiously Wrought Red Sandstone Arches Fort Agra India Date between 1885(1885) and 1895(1895)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 48.9 X 33 cm (19.25 X 12.99 in)
cyf
Promenade on an Indian Street Oil on canvas, 60.9 x 47 cm
Date circa mid-1880s
cyf Painting ID:: 97903
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.