CHARLES JAMES LEWIS R.I.
(1830-1892)
The Little Blue Dove
21.5 x 16 cm.
Signed.
Inscribed with artist’s title on old label verso.
Oil on canvas. Set in original arched frame.
A painter of landscapes, genre and small domestic subjects who exhibited
at the Royal Academy from 1853 to 1890 and also at the British Institute,
the Royal Society of British Artists, the New Watercolour Society and
the Grosvenor Gallery. He was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters
in Watercolours in 1882 and lived in Chelsea.