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Briony Llewellyn (1952-2023)

Briony Llewellyn, an independent scholar, published extensively on British artists’ depictions of the Near and Middle East. She made a special study of JF Lewis. Her catalogue of British and Maltese works in the Ömer M Koç Collection will be published in 2023.

Articles

  • Man of War and Peace

    Jochmus Pasha by JF Lewis c1841

    From Issue 65

    Briony Llewellyn and Charles Newton on a rediscovered portrait by JF Lewis

  • Charmer Chameleon

    How JF Lewis loved to paint himself into the picture

    From Issue 59

    Described by his friend the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray as ‘a languid Lotus-eater’, the Victorian Orientalist JF Lewis travelled to Turkey and Egypt and recreated what he saw of Ottoman life in loving, exotic detail – often painting himself and his wife into his pictures clad in elaborate local dress. Briony Llewellyn looks back over a life of many colours

  • The painter who vanished

    Joseph Schranz and his magnificent Constantinople panoramas

    From Issue 57

    Born into a family of much-travelled artists, Joseph Schranz made his name in Ottoman Istanbul on the eve of the Crimean War with finely detailed, atmospheric panoramas of the Bosphorus. Admired by the Palace and by a new breed of intrepid tourist, he even trained a generation of Turkish artists to observe nature. Yet Schranz’s life in Turkey is an almost total mystery and his known works are tantalisingly rare

  • The Empire Unvarnished

    From Issue 53

    Luigi Mayer made his mark with lively, quirky scenes for the British ambassador to Constantinople, painting viziers and villagers, soldiers and servants across the Ottoman Empire. He deserves to be plucked from obscurity, argues Briony Llewellyn

  • Drawing from Life

    The Orientalist Watercolours of JF Lewis

    From Issue 45

    John Frederick Lewis (1804–76), was the supreme orientalist, fêted for his sumptuous Ottoman scenes. The secret of his success, says Briony Llewellyn, lies in the vivid sketches he made during his time in the East

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