Edwin Lord Weeks
Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903) was an American artist.
Life
He was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Léon Bonnat and of Jean-Léon Gérôme, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes. [1]
Weeks' parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston and as such they were able to accept, probably encourage, and certainly finance their son's youthful interest in painting and travelling. As a young man Edwin Lord Weeks visited the Florida Keys to draw and also travelled to Surinam in South America. His earliest known paintings date from 1867 when Edwin Lord Weeks was eighteen years old, although it is not until his Landscape with Blue Heron, dated 1871 and painted in the Everglades, that Weeks started to exhibit a dexterity of technique and eye for composition—presumably having taken professional tuition.
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 Légion d'honneur, France, an officer of the Order of St. Michael, Germany, and a member of the Secession, Munich.[1]
Gallery
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A Maratha, leaving for hunting from Gwalior Fort
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Maratha king of Gwalior at his palace
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A Maratha hunting party
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Promenade on a Maratha street
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Barge of the Maharaja Of Benares, 1883
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On The River Benares, 1883
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Along the Ghats of Mathura, 1883
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The Maharajah at the Amer Fort, 1888
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A Mughal And His Court Returning From The Great Mosque At Delhi India
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An Open-Air Restaurant near Wazir Khan Mosque, Lahore
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Royal Elephant at the Gateway to the Jama Masjid, Mathura
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Entering the Mosque, 1885
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Interior of a Mosque at Cordova (circa 1880), The Walters Art Museum.
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The Taj Mahal, 1883. The Walters Art Museum.
References
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911.
- Attribution
public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Weeks, Edwin Lord". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in theSources
- "Hindoo and Moslem", Harper's New Monthly Magazine, October 1895