Artist
William Lewis
William Lewis is a Romanticism painter. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them watercolors.
William Lewis painted tiny portraits, each one 3 inches wide on ivory, of people in 1830s America. His subjects include Lazarus M. Goldsmith, Louisa W. Dixon, and an unnamed gentleman, all in watercolor so fine you’d mistake them for jewelry. He also sketched Raby Castle in England, a big Gothic pile he saw on paper.
These works feel like snapshots from a pocket watch: intimate, exact, and full of details you notice only up close. Tap Raby Castle to step inside the scene.
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