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John Frederick Lewis RA | Orientalist / Genre painter

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British painter John Frederick Lewis RA (1805-1876) is the one of finest of the Orientalist painters. Because of his painstaking "Pre-Raphaelite" technique, his finished paintings are rare.
John Frederick Lewis was born in London in 1805, the son of a master engraver, Frederick Christian Lewis