"City by the Lake, Switzerland" by Henry Lewis

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"City by the Lake, Switzerland" by Henry Lewis

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Henry Lewis, 1819-1904 Oil on canvas, City of Thun in Switzerland, Stadt Thun im Schweiz, City of Thun in Switzerland Signed and dated H. Lewis 1861 Dusseldorf in the lower right and inscribed as titled in the lower left. Measures 21.75" x 28" and 31.5" x 38" including the frame. Provenance: Christies NY 1987, Guarisco Gallery, Ltd., Washington, D.C. "Professor" Henry Lewis (1819–1904) was a British-born, self-taught American artist and showman. Lewis was born in Newport, Wales or Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, on January 12, 1819, according to Joseph Earl Arrington. John Graham Cooke casts doubt on Lewis's precise birthplace, but mentions Shropshire, England, as a possible birthplace, in that Lewis's father came from there. Lewis's family immigrated about 1833 to Boston, Massachusetts, where he was apprenticed to a carpenter. At age seventeen, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he worked as a carpenter and scenery painter at the St. Louis Theatre. Between 1846 and 1848, Lewis sketched and painted hundreds of scenes of the Mississippi River. These included rare views, such as the Mormon Temple at Nauvoo, Illinois (burned 1848), and the great St. Louis Fire of 1849. Lewis developed his sketches into a giant moving panorama – 12 feet by 1,300 feet – which was unrolled, with music and narration, before theater audiences in the United States and Europe. Lewis settled in Germany in 1854, and published a book with eighty illustrations based on his panorama: The Illustrated Mississippi: From the Falls of St. Anthony to the Gulf of Mexico (1857). He died in 1904 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Creator:
Henry Lewis (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 31.5 in (80.01 cm)Width: 38 in (96.52 cm)Depth: 4 in (10.16 cm)
Style:
Victorian (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Paint
Period:
1860-1869
Date of Manufacture:
1861
Condition:
Refinished. Wear consistent with age and use. The painting was professionally conserved and cleaned some time ago. The frame is period and probably original to the painting. It has some blemishes, as would be expected due to its age, but presents very well overall.
Seller Location:
Wiscasset, ME
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1017626913402