Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – November 1903) was an American painter, noted for his Orientalist works.

His parents were spice and tea merchants from Newton, and as such they were able to finance their son's youthful interest in painting and travelling.

As a young man Weeks visited the Florida Keys to draw, and also travelled to Surinam in South America.

[1] After his studies in Paris, Weeks emerged as one of America's major painters of Orientalist subjects.

Throughout his adult life he was an inveterate traveler and journeyed to South America (1869), Egypt and Persia (1870), Morocco (frequently between 1872 and 1878), and India (1882–83).