Charles Lewis (painter)

Charles Lewis (1753 – 12 July 1795) was an English still life painter.

Life

Lewis was born in Gloucester in 1753. He was apprenticed to a manufacturer in Birmingham, where he obtained some reputation for his skill in the decoration of japanned tea-trays. He turned to painting, and in 1772, at the exhibition of the Society of Artists in London, he exhibited nine pictures of fruit, dead game and other still life subjects.[1]

He went to Dublin in 1776, but not meeting with success as a painter he took to the stage, obtaining from Michael Arne an engagement as a singer at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin. Again he was not successful.[1]

He visited Holland in 1781, and on his return settled in London, where he acquired great repute as a painter of still life. He exhibited three pictures at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1786. He exhibited for the last time in 1791, sending a fruit piece to the Royal Academy.[1]

On the invitation of Lord Gardenstone Lewis went to Edinburgh, but on the death of his patron his fortunes languished, and he died there on 12 July 1795.[1]

Lewis married a daughter of the violinist Thomas Pinto.[1]

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References
  1. Cust, Lionel Henry (1893). "Lewis, Charles (1753-1795)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 33. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 171–172.

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