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EDWIN LORD WEEKS (1849-1903)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 467 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWIN LORD WEEKS (1849-1903)  ,
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American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849 . He was a pupil of Leon
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Bonnat and of J . L . Ger6me, at Paris . He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of
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oriental scenes . In 1895 he wrote and illustrated a
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book of travels, From the Black Sea through
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Persia and India, and two years later he published Episodes of Mountaineering . He died on the 17th of November 1903 . He was a member of the Legion of Honour, France, an officer of the Order of St Michael, Germany, and a member of the
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Secession, Munich .

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