"The Coffee Bearer" is a beautiful Harem painting by the Orientalist master John Frederick Lewis. The artist supplies a long description of the woman and with the intense detailing of the painting stakes a high claim to authoritative knowledge and artistic mastery. Lewis entered into a true relationship with Cairo: the city gave him the colours, the light, the architecture - the material he needed to become a great artist. Cairo made Lewis interrogate himself, the artist's relationship to his material, his social and political role, his integrity and, finally, his historic responsibility. It was through this interrogation that he produced his masterpieces.
About the Canvas Prints
The Coffee Bearer by John Frederick Lewis. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. Your image gets printed onto our premium processed canvases and then stretched on a white maple wooden frame (gallery wrap) or framed inside black maple (framed canvas). Your canvas print will be shipped within 4 days in "ready to frame" condition for normal rolled and "ready to hang" condition for frames and wraps with pre-attached hanging wire and/or mounting points.