Print Art - The Courtyard

THE COURTYARD by John Frederick Lewis RA
The Courtyard of the Coptic Patriarch’s House in Cairo’ (c.1864)

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Study for ‘The Courtyard of the Coptic Patriarch’s House in Cairo’ (c.1864).
The Coptic Church is the ancient Orthodox Christian Church of Egypt. This study of the patriarch’s house was executed after Lewis’s return from Egypt in 1851, from the sketches he brought back. The picture highlights Lewis’s skill in depicting figures and setting with careful attention to light and shade, produced here by the top-lit courtyard. Lewis caused a sensation when he exhibited one of his Near Eastern scenes in London in 1850. John Ruskin admired his attention to detail, claiming that in truth-to-nature he ranked alongside the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

John Frederick Lewis RA (London 14 July 1804 – 15 August 1876) was an English painter. He specialized in Oriental and Mediterranean scenes in detailed watercolour or oils, very often repeating the same composition in a version in each medium. He lived for several years in a traditional mansion in Cairo, and after his return to England in 1851 he specialised in highly detailed works showing both realistic genre scenes of Middle Eastern life and more idealised scenes in upper class Egyptian interiors with little apparent Western influence. His very careful and loving representation of Islamic architecture, furnishings, screens, and costumes set new standards of realism, which influenced other artists, including the leading French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme in his later works.

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