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Edwin Lord Weeks
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Old_Blue-Tiled_Mosque,Outside_Delhi,India
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mk140
circa_1883-185
Oil_on_canvas
79.6x64.8cm
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Old Blue-Tiled Mosque,Outside Delhi,India
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mk140
circa 1883-185
Oil on canvas
79.6x64.8cm
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American Academic Painter, 1849-1903, American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Leon Bonnat and of Jean-Leon Gerome, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes. In 1895 he wrote and illustrated a book of travels, From the Black Sea through Persia and India, and two years later he published Episodes of Mountaineering. He died in November 1903. He was a member of the Legion d'honneur, France, an officer of the Order of St. Michael, Germany, and a member of the Secession, Munich.
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