A rediscovered masterpiece in watercolour, “A Reception in the Harem” by John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876), unseen in public for over 60 years, was the top lot at Bonhams 19th Century & Orientalist ...

21 x 28.5 cm. (8.3 x 11.2 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

Paul Delvaux, Les belles de nuit (1936) Photo courtesy of Christie’s John Frederick Lewis’s ... the look of oil painting. A Reception in the Harem shows a wealthy woman receiving guests ...

The death of this distinguished artist is anuounced in a dispatch from London to-day. Mr. Lewis was a son of Mr. F.C. Lewis, an English engraver and landscape paintar of some note in London at the ...

John Frederick Lewis: Facing Fame - on view at Watts Gallery – is the first exhibition in more than 40 years to explore the life, art and travels of this leading British Orientalist painter.