Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903), American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Léon Bonnat and of Jean-Léon Gérôme, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes.

Weeks' parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston and as such they were able to accept, probably encourage, and certainly finance their son's youthful interest in painting and travelling. As a young man Edwin Lord Weeks visited the Florida Keys to draw and also travelled to Surinam in South America. His earliest known paintings date from 1867 when Edwin Lord Weeks was eighteen years old, although it is not until his Landscape with Blue Heron, dated 1871 and painted in the Everglades, that Edwin Lord Weeks started to exhibit a dexterity of technique and eye for composition - presumably having taken professional tuition.[1]

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 Légion d'honneur, France, an officer of the Order of St. Michael, Germany, and a member of the Secession, Munich.

References

§   Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Weeks, Edwin Lord". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

§  Template:Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Article "Hindoo and Moslem" Oct 1895

Cited

1.     ^ Edwin Lord Weeks oil painting and biography

§  Edwin Lord Weeks paintings & biography

External links

§  Comprehensive site with biography, images by the artist, and more.

§  Weeks Gallery at MuseumSyndicate

§  Weeks at the Art Renewal Center