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{{Short description|American Orientalist painter}}
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| birth_date = 1849
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| death_date = November 1903 (aged 53-54)
| death_place = [[Paris]], [[France]]
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| nationality = American
| education = [[Léon Bonnat]] and [[Jean-Léon Gérôme]], Paris
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| known_for = Painter, writer
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'''Edwin Lord Weeks''' (1849{{snd}}1903) was an [[Americans|American]] artist, noted for his Orientalist works.

==Life==
[[File:Edwin Lord Weeks in his studio.jpg|thumb|left|Edwin Lord Weeks in his studio.]]
Weeks was born in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] in 1849. His parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from [[Newton, Massachusetts|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 [[Florida Keys]] to draw, and also travelled to [[Surinam (Dutch colony)|Surinam]] in South America. His earliest known paintings date from 1867 when he was eighteen years old, although it is not until his ''Landscape with Blue Heron'', dated 1871 and painted in the [[Everglades]], that Weeks started to exhibit a dexterity of technique and eye for composition—presumably having taken professional tuition.

In 1872 Weeks relocated to [[Paris]], becoming a pupil of [[Léon Bonnat]] and [[Jean-Léon Gérôme]].<ref>Telfair Museum of Art., & McCullough, H. K. (2005). ''Telfair Museum of Art: Collection highlights''. Savannah, Ga: Telfair Museum of Art. p. 102. {{ISBN|0933075049}}.</ref>

After his studies in Paris, Weeks emerged as one of [[United States|America]]'s major painters of [[Orientalism|Orientalist]] subjects. Throughout his adult life he was an inveterate traveler and journeyed to [[South America]] (1869), [[Egypt]] and [[Persia]] (1870), [[Morocco]] (frequently between 1872 and 1878), and [[India]] (1882–83).

In 1895 Weeks wrote and illustrated a book of travels, ''From the Black Sea through Persia and India'',<ref>{{cite book|author=Weeks, Edwin Lord|title=From the Black Sea through Persia and India|location=New York|publisher=Harper & Brothers|year=1896|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000236626}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''From the Black Sea through Persia and India'' by Edwin Lord Weeks|journal=The Athenaeum|issue= 3558|date=4 January 1896|pages=10–11|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c3469032;view=1up;seq=26}}</ref> and in 1897 he published ''Episodes of Mountaineering''<ref name="EB1911">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Weeks, Edwin Lord|volume=28|page=466}}</ref> (which was preceded by the 1894 article ''Some Episodes of Mountaineering, by a Casual Amateur'').<ref>{{cite journal|author=Weeks, Edwin Lord|title=Some Episodes of Mountaineering, by a Casual Amateur|journal=Scribner's Magazine|date=May 1894|volume=15|issue=5|pages=531–553|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015399853;view=1up;seq=541}}</ref>

Weeks died in Paris in November 1903.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/americanartannu00artsgoog | title=American Art Annual, Volume 5 | publisher=MacMillan Company | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/americanartannu00artsgoog/page/n142 124]}}</ref> He was a member of the [[Légion d'honneur]], [[France]], an officer of the [[Order of Saint Michael (Bavaria)]], and a member of the [[Munich Secession]].<ref name="EB1911"/>

==Achievements==
Weeks exhibited his work in nearly every annual [[Salon (Paris)]]. He earned a Medal of Honor in 1884, then a Third Class Medal in 1889, followed by a gold medal at the 1889 International Exhibition, and finally the Legion of Honor in 1896.<ref name="1903ParisSalons">{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Foreign Correspondence NEW YORK |title=THE TWO PARIS SALONS; American Artists Well Represented This Year. Some of the Principal Exhibits -- Edwin Lord Weeks Sends an Oriental Subject -- Many Works by Women. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/04/19/101990043.pdf |access-date=14 October 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=19 April 1903}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Leaving For The Hunt At Gwalior ca 1887.jpg|A Maratha, leaving for hunting from [[Gwalior Fort]]
File:The Maharahaj of Gwalior Before His Palace ca 1887.jpg|[[Maharaja of Gwalior|Maratha king of Gwalior]] at his palace
File:An Indian Hunting Party.jpg|A Maratha hunting party
File:Edwin Lord Weeks Promenade on an Indian Street.jpg|Promenade on a Maratha street
File:The Barge Of The Maharaja Of Benares ca 1883.jpg|Barge of the [[Royal House of Benares|Maharaja Of Benares]], 1883
File:On The River Benares ca 1883.jpg|On The River Benares, 1883
File:Edwin_Lord_Weeks_-_Along_the_Ghats,_Mathura.jpg|Along the Ghats of [[Mathura]], 1883
File:The Rajah, At The Palace Of Amber ca 1888.jpg|The Maharajah at the [[Amer Fort]], 1888
File:Great Mogul And His Court Returning From The Great Mosque At Delhi India - Oil Painting by American Artist Edwin Lord Weeks.jpg|The Great Mughal And His Court Returning From The Great Mosque At Delhi India
File:Weeks Edwin Lord An Open-Air Restaurant Lahore.jpg|An Open-Air Restaurant near [[Wazir Khan Mosque]], Lahore
File:Weeks Edwin Lord Royal Elephant.jpg|Royal Elephant at the Gateway to the [[Jama Masjid, Mathura]]
File:Weeks Edwin Entering The Mosque 1885.jpg|Entering the Mosque, 1885
File:Edwin Lord Weeks - Interior of a Mosque at Cordova - Walters 37169.jpg|''Interior of a Mosque at Cordova'' (circa 1880), [[The Walters Art Museum]]
File:Edwin Lord Weeks - The Taj Mahal - Walters 37316.jpg|''The Taj Mahal'', 1883, [[The Walters Art Museum]]
File:Weeks Edwin Lord Arrival of a Caravan Outside The City of Morocco.jpg|Arrival of a Caravan Outside the City of Morocco
</gallery>

==See also==
* [[List of Orientalist artists]]
* [[Orientalism]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

===Sources===
* Edwin Lord Weeks, [http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=harp;cc=harp;rgn=full%20text;idno=harp0091-5;didno=harp0091-5;view=image;seq=0661;node=harp0091-5%3A1 "Hindoo and Moslem"], ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine'', Vol. 91, No. 545, October 1895, pp. 651–669.

==External links==
{{commons category|Edwin Lord Weeks}}
*[http://www.edwinlordweeks.org Comprehensive site with biography, images by the artist, and more.]
*[http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=409 Weeks Gallery at MuseumSyndicate]
*[http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=475 Weeks at the Art Renewal Center]
*[http://shahrefarang.com/edwin-lord-weeks/ Few paintings at a persian website] ''shahrefarang.com''

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