Edwin Lord Weeks

Style: Academicism;

Place: Boston

Born: 1849

Death: 1903

Biography:

Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903) was an American artist, noted for his Orientalist works. Weeks was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1849. His parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston, and as such they were able to finance their son's youthful interest in painting and travelling. As a young man Weeks visited the F...