Lewis Henry Meakin Oil on Canvas Painting ca.1885

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Born in Newcastle, Staffordshire, England on July 12, 1850, Died in 1917 (Boston, Massachusetts) Lewis Meakin settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. He became a skilled painter of landscapes, especially of scenes along the Ohio River and the Canadian Rockies, and he also painted during the summers at Cape Ann and Gloucester,Massachusetts. He studied at the School of Design in Cincinnati with prominent Cincinnati artists Frank Duveneck and John Twachtmann, and later attended various schools in German, France, Holland, and Italy. For forty years Meakin was a teacher at the Cincinnati Art Academy and was also Curator of the Cincinnati Museum. Height: 18.0 inches (24.5 framed). Width: 23.5 (30.0 framed).