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| Keywords: Weeks Edwin The Silk Merchants.jpg en 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 Date not mentioned http //www filestube com/6Gveb6baIsdLxqLvPb4QJo/105-Old-India-in-Paintings-Wallpapers-Collection-zip html creator Edwin Lord Weeks PD-old-100 Paintings of India by Edwin Lord Weeks Paintings of men of India | ||||
