#orientalist painter

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Lilium Auratum

Artist: John Frederick Lewis (English, 1804–1876)

Date: 1871

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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The Siesta

Artist: John Frederick Lewis (English, 1805–1876)

Date: 1876

Medium: Oil paint on canvas

Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom

Description

Lewis lived in Cairo between 1842 and 1851. While in the Egyptian capital he reportedly lived in extreme luxury. After he returned to Britain he continued to paint Egyptian scenes, such this sun-drenched domestic interior. Lewis’s British wife, Marian, modelled as the sleeping woman. Victorian portrayals of Arab-Islamic life often characterize it as more decadent, mysterious and sensual than life in Europe. Such representations have been criticized as serving western European viewers’ desire for superiority and control over the Middle East.

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Leopold Müller

Orientalist painter -- The Woman at the Well

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Selbstbewusst.1909. Oil on Canvas. 90.5 x 73.7 cm. (35.43 x 28.74 in.) Art by Ferdinand Max Bredt. (1868-1921).

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Leopold Müller Orientalist painter

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Pavle "Paja" Jovanovic

Orientalist painter