In Amalfi, Italy

Details

John Frederick Lewis, R.A., P.O.W.S. (1805-1876)
In Amalfi, Italy
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour
9¾ x 13 1/8 in. (24.7 x 33.5 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1958, lot 6 (part I).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 November 1981, lot 216.
with Agnew's, London.

Literature

Major-General J.M. Lewis, C.B.E., John Frederick Lewis, R.A., Leigh-on-Sea, 1978, p. 77, no. 309, pl. 36.

Exhibited

Guilford, Guildford House Gallery, J.F.Lewis, R.A. (1805-1876), Painter of the Desert and Harem, 1977, no. 61.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Lewis spent the winter of 1837-8 in Paris, but left early that year for Italy, visiting Florence and Naples, where he spent the winter of 1838-1839. While there he travelled widely and sketched at Amalfi, Sorrento, Capri, Procida and Isolina. In 1839 he was in Rome where he stayed until the summer of 1840, when he left for Greece, the Levant and Egypt.

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