"Leaving For The Hunt".
Artist: Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903).
Illustration: PINTEREST
"A Great Mogul and his Court returning from The Great Mosque at Delhi, India".
Artist: Edwin Lord Weeks.
Date: 29 February 2012 (original Upload date).
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Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903) was an American artist born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1849. His parents were affluent Spice and Tea Merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston, and, as such, they were able to finance their son's youthful interest in painting and travelling.
As a young man, Weeks visited The Florida Keys to draw, and also travelled to Surinam, in South America. His earliest-known paintings date from 1867, when he was eighteen years old, although it is not until his "Landscape with Blue Heron", dated 1871 and painted in The Everglades, that Weeks started to exhibit a dexterity of technique and eye for composition — presumably having taken professional tuition.
"Street Scene in India" (circa 1884–1888).
Artist: Edwin Lord Weeks.
Currently housed in The Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Date: 20 June 2010.
Source/Photographer: Own work.
Author: AgnosticPreachersKid
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In 1872, Weeks relocated to Paris, France, becoming a pupil of Léon Bonnat and Jean-Léon Gérôme.
After his studies in Paris, Weeks emerged as one of America's major painters of Orientalist subjects. Throughout his adult life, he was an inveterate traveller and journeyed to South America (1869), Egypt and Persia (1870), Morocco (frequently between 1872 and 1878), and India (1882–1883).
In 1895, Weeks wrote and illustrated a book of travels, From The Black Sea, through Persia and India, and, in 1897, he published "Episodes of Mountaineering".
Weeks died in Paris in November 1903. He was a Member of The Légion d'honneur, France, an Officer of The Order of Saint Michael (Bavaria), and a Member of The Munich Secession.
Weeks exhibited his work in nearly every annual Salon (Paris). He earned a Medal of Honour in 1884, then a Third Class Medal in 1889, followed by a Gold Medal at the 1889 International Exhibition, and, finally, the Legion of Honour in 1896.
