Charles James Lewis

Charles James Lewis (1830 – 28 January 1892) was an English painter in oils and watercolours.

He first exhibited in 1853, when at the Royal Academy of Art he showed a portrait of "Miss Shelton".

[1][2] He became a painter of rustic genre scenes and of landscape, and his works were very popular.

[1][2] Lewis's more highly regarded work was done in watercolour; in 1882 he was elected a member of the Institute of Painters in Water-Colours.

[1] From 1884 he lived in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, where he died on 28 January 1892 after a long illness, survived by his wife and family.