Newport, Rhode Island, 1887

Catalog no. 0000707

MediumWatercolor with Bodycolor on Paper
Size9-1/4 x 20-1/4 Inches
SignedSigned LR: Edmund D. Lewis
Date1887

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About the artist

Born in Philadelphia, Edmund Darch Lewis would live his entire life in that city enjoying one of the nineteenth century’s most financially successful careers as a land and seascape painter. For a time his sales of oil and watercolor paintings, most notably his watercolor marines, exceeded every other artist’s in the country. Lewis initially studied for five years under American master Paul Weber. In 1854, at the age of 19, he would mount his first successful exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy. Later his paintings were exhibited and won awards at the National Academy of Design and the…

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