Henry Roderick Newman

Henry Roderick Newman (March 4, 1843 Easton, New York - December 1, 1917, Florence, Italy)[1] was an American landscape and still-life painter, influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite style.

When his father died, in 1861, he gave up medicine and, at the age of eighteen, declared his intention to become a painter.

In 1868, he was attracted to Florida for health reasons and became one of the first well-known American painters to work there, near St. Augustine.

In 1877, English critic John Ruskin saw his work and suggested subjects for him to paint, some of which he commissioned.

Most of the works he created on those visits are watercolors of ancient structures, especially of the Temple of Philae, rather than the usual Orientalist scenes.