Weeks Edwin Lord Traveling in Persia

About author:

Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903), American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Léon Bonnat and of Jean-Léon Gérôme, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes.

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