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. Related Paintings of Edwin Lord Weeks :. | On the River Ganges, Benares | Curiously Wrought Red Sandstone Arches Fort Agra India | Study of a Moor in Blue | The Last Voyage-A Souvenir of the Ganges, Benares. | A Street SDcene in North West India,Probably Udaipur | Related Artists: Sebastiano BombelliItalian, 1635-1719, Italian painter. He was perhaps the most influential Italian portrait painter of the later 17th century. His early style was formed by his father, Valentino Bombelli, a painter in Udine, and his godfather, the Mannerist artist Girolamo Lugaro. In the early 1660s he was in Venice (Boschini; Sansovino), where he responded passionately to the brilliant colour, painterly freedom and naturalism of 16th-century Venetian artists, particularly Veronese BRESCIANINO, Andrea delItalian painter (b. ca. 1487, Ferrara, d. after 1524, Ferrara) emil ostermanmale model and pupils. ca. 1892
royal academy of fine arts
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