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The Reception, 1873, version in oils, using drawings of Lewis' house in Cairo, which he had left over 20 years before [4]. Lewis was born in London on 14 July 1804. He was the son of Frederick Christian Lewis (1779–1856), an engraver and landscape painter, whose German father had moved to England and changed his name from Ludwig. [5]
The painting depicts a scene from the Odyssey. Circe, a sorceress, offers a cup to Odysseus (commonly Ulysses in English). [2] In the cup is a potion.Circe seeks to bring Ulysses under her spell, as she has done with his crew.
Quilting Frolic is an oil-on-canvas genre painting by American artist John Lewis Krimmel (1786–1821). It was painted in Philadelphia in 1813. Purchased in 1953, the work is held in the permanent collection of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library. The painting depicts an interior domestic scene of merrymaking with a Black child serving ...
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Election Day in Philadelphia is a genre painting of a "bustling streetscape" on Chestnut Street outside Independence Hall. [3] Highlights include a parade towing an election float shaped like a longboat, a man pasting flyers on a wall, a brawl spilling out of a tavern, a drunk sprawled in the gutter, children and dogs playing in the street, and many groups of men and women in animated discussion.
American Progress, a painting of profound historical significance, has become a seminal example of American Western Art.Serving as an allegory for manifest destiny and American westward expansion, this 11.50 by 15.75 inches (29.2 cm × 40.0 cm) masterpiece was commissioned in 1872 by George Crofutt, a publisher of American Western travel guides and has since been frequently reproduced.
This conflict was the setting of Lewis' novel The Revenge for Love (1937), but Lewis denied any intended connection between the painting and novel. It is similar to The Armada, another painting Lewis made around the same period, which belongs to the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada. [2] Jeffrey Meyers calls The Surrender of Barcelona Lewis ...
John Lewis (1912–1996) was a Welsh typographer, ... From 1951 to 1963 he taught graphic design at the Royal College of Art. With Michael Twyman and Maurice Rickards