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    • JOHN LEWIS (1739 - 1769)
      Dec. 06, 2022

      JOHN LEWIS (1739 - 1769)

      Est: €5,000 - €8,000

      Portrait of a lady, half-length, in a yellow dress with blue bows, feigned oval. Signed and dated 'Jn. Lewis fecit 1754' (lower left). Oil on canvas. Unusually John Lewis was a scene and landscape painter as well as a portrait painter, working in Wales and Ireland. Lewis may have been a Welshman, but from Shrewsbury, and the most recent information on his left is Peter Lord, The Two Lives of John Lewis, (Irish Arts Review, Spring, 2005, pages 114-119). He was working in Wales and Ireland in the 1740s and was definitely established in Ireland in 1750 when he started work for Thomas Sheridan in the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. His connection with the theatre led him to portray among others a number of well-known theatrical figures including Peg Woffington, during one of her seasons at Smock Alley, and Thomas Sheridan (both National Gallery of Ireland; see N. Figgis and B. Rooney, Irish painting in the National Gallery of Ireland, 2001, pp. 346-52, nos. 579 and 1132), both of which are dated 1753, the year prior to the present portrait. His portrait of the author Henry Brooke is dated 1755. Lewis continued to work in Ireland even after he stopped working at the Smock Alley Theatre in 1757 but later seems to have left Ireland for England in 1762.

      Sheppards
    • JOHN LEWIS (1739 - 1769)
      Sep. 27, 2022

      JOHN LEWIS (1739 - 1769)

      Est: €5,000 - €8,000

      Portrait of a lady, half-length, in a yellow dress with blue bows, feigned oval. Signed and dated 'Jn. Lewis fecit 1754' (lower left). Oil on canvas. Unusually John Lewis was a scene and landscape painter as well as a portrait painter, working in Wales and Ireland. Lewis may have been a Welshman, but from Shrewsbury, and the most recent information on his left is Peter Lord, The Two Lives of John Lewis, (Irish Arts Review, Spring, 2005, pages 114-119). He was working in Wales and Ireland in the 1740s and was definitely established in Ireland in 1750 when he started work for Thomas Sheridan in the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. His connection with the theatre led him to portray among others a number of well-known theatrical figures including Peg Woffington, during one of her seasons at Smock Alley, and Thomas Sheridan (both National Gallery of Ireland; see N. Figgis and B. Rooney, Irish painting in the National Gallery of Ireland, 2001, pp. 346-52, nos. 579 and 1132), both of which are dated 1753, the year prior to the present portrait. His portrait of the author Henry Brooke is dated 1755. Lewis continued to work in Ireland even after he stopped working at the Smock Alley Theatre in 1757 but later seems to have left Ireland for England in 1762.

      Sheppards
    • John Lewis (fl.1739-1757)
      Nov. 11, 2004

      John Lewis (fl.1739-1757)

      Est: £5,000 - £7,000

      Portrait of Mary Yeats, of Ashton House, Beetham, seated three-quarter-length, wearing a pink dress and holding a crop in her right hand, a landscape with classical buildings and a flock of sheep beyond with inscription 'Mary Keats aged 25/Daughter of John and Mary Keats, all/buried in Beetham Church' (on a label on the reverse) oil on canvas 50 x 40 1/4 in. (127 x 102.2 cm.)

      Christie's
    • John Lewis (active 1739-1769)
      May. 26, 2004

      John Lewis (active 1739-1769)

      Est: €12,500 - €18,500

      John Lewis (active 1739-1769) Portrait of a lady, half length, in a gold dress with a lace collar and fur trim and with a dark pink plumed hat, in a painted oval Oil on canvas, 75.5 x 62 cm (29.75 x 24.5") Signed and dated "Jn Lewis fecit/ 1753)

      Adam's
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