Lewis, John Frederick, 1804-1876
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1804-August 15, 1876
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Alice Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis, between 1874 and 1876, January 26
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
Alice Woolner's hand is difficult to decipher. She appears to be writing on behalf of Thomas Woolner to arrange a meeting with J.F. Lewis on January 29th, at the Athenaeum.
Dates:
between 1874 and 1876, January 26
Alice Woolner letter to Marian Lewis, between 1874 and 1876, March 22
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
Woolner appears to inquire about the health of J.F. Lewis, noting "this severe weather I fear is very bad for your invalid."
Dates:
between 1874 and 1876, March 22
Amy Woolner letter to D. Hewitt, 1914 March 29
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"March 29th, 1914. Dear Mr. Hewitt, Thank you very much for searching out the letters of my father and taking so much trouble about the matter. It will be very nice to see you again if you can manage to bring the letters but I should like to know when you mean to come as I might be out - we are leaving this place on Monday April 6th and tomorrow we are out all the afternoon - With our kind regards, I am Sincerely yours, Amy Woolner."
Dates:
1914 March 29
Amy Woolner note, 1914 May 19
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 27
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
A folded sheet of paper, inscribed: "Letters from T. Woolner to J.F. Lewis R.A., returned with thanks & compliments, May 19, 1914, from Amy Woolner, Belle Vue, Chiddingfold, Surrey."
Dates:
1914 May 19
Charles Aitken letter to D. Hewitt, 1914 January 15
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"January 15, 1914. Dear Mr Hewitt, I am so much indebted to you for your kindness in sending me this valuable list. I want to see Lewis better represented here and shall try to array a little exhibition rather with a view to the Trustees being able to see his work. Mr Horton of Birmingham [i.e., Joseph Horton, d. 1927] has a good big [?] scale one "In the Harem" but he has rather an exaggerated idea of its market price. Sir Cuthbert Quilter had a good one but I do not know at present what...
Dates:
1914 January 15
Dante Gabriel Rossetti letter to Ellen Heaton, 1855 November 24
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 55.57
Call Number: MSS 47
Scope and Contents:
Rossetti explains that he has been in Paris for the past ten days and so only just received Heaton's latest letter. Rossetti has heard from Ruskin that Heaton would prefer keeping the drawing from the Purgatorio of Rachel and Leah, or Matilda and Beatrice. Rossetti remarks that he has given Matilda and Beatrice the actions of Rachel and Leah and describes the two figures as "of an entirely Oriental character, as the real Rachel and Leah...
Dates:
1855 November 24
John Frederick Lewis letter to William Vokins, 1863 December 25
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"Xmas Day 1863. My dear Vokins, Poor Thackeray has gone! I suppose you saw this morning an account of his death in the "Times". Poor fellow. What a loss! & so young too. At one time I knew him well. Your note gratified me much this morning & when I opened & saw the Photograph, I thought you had put your real self in - & had got somebody to seal you up! Thanks for it - it is very like [...] God knows yet what I shall get by April - I will do my best, if my health holds out -...
Dates:
1863 December 25
Album of letters to David Roberts, with autographs, engraved portraits, and printed ephemera, compiled by Henry Sanford Bicknell
Collection
Call Number: MSS 34
Scope and Contents:
The album was compiled by Henry Sanford Bicknell. It includes letters to David Roberts from William Allan, Samuel Austin, Edward Hodges Baily, William Boxall, John Britton, John Burnet, Robert William Buss, Augustus Wall Callcott, George Cattermole, Alfred Edward Chalon, Henry Barnard Chalon, William Collins, Edward William Cooke, George Cooke, Charles West Cope, John Doyle, Thomas Duncan, Charles Lock Eastlake, James Elmes, William Etty, Myles Birket Foster, Andrew Geddes, Frederick Goodall,...
Dates:
circa 1813-circa 1864
Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis, 1875 January 31
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"Jan 31 '75. My dear Lewis, If you refuse being Mr-ed; - I was much delighted with your kind letter and the hope it offered me of a pleasant glimpse of your happy life. Please to ask Mrs Lewis to accept my bow of homage, and say with what pleasure I look forward to making her acquaintance. I know that I have already seen her several times in life, and, if I mistake not, once in her immortality as she looks in the "Bey's Garden," the guardian angel of...
Dates:
1875 January 31
Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis, 1876 February 13
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"Feb 13 '76. My dear Lewis, I met your brother in the street this morning and was grieved to hear from him that you were not so well and that the cold weather affected you. This cold is most penetrating, for almost ever since I was with you I have been bothered with a cough and irritation in my throat, and I cannot get well in consequence of the cold. If the cold serves me in this unjustifiable manner, my whole life being spent in the exercise of jumping up and down stools and steps, how is it...
Dates:
1876 February 13
Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis, 1874 February 1
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"Feb 1 '74. My dear Mr Lewis, I was sorry to miss the pleasure of seeing you last Thursday, but I was afraid you would not be able to come to town again so soon. The election was I think perfectly satisfactory; the new manner of voting acted well, and really gained the wishes of the body by breaking the coalition of several cliques, which are individually of small account, but formidable when combined. I shall be very pleased to have a chat with you on the subject of your pictures, and anything...
Dates:
1874 February 1
Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis, 1874 April 12
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"Ap: 12 '74. My dear Mr Lewis, Sir Vincent Eyre is anxious to do something towards preserving the antiquities in Egypt, and intends drawing up a petition to the Khedive for that purpose, and to have it presented to him thro' the Foreign Office. But in order to give the petition full effect both with our and the Egyptians authorities, he thinks it best to obtain the sanctions and signatures of the President and Council of the R. Academy, and of the Roy: Soc: of Antiquaries. He was speaking to me...
Dates:
1874 April 12
Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis, 1874 May 17
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"May 17 '74. My dear Mr Lewis, your letter was sent on to me at Paris, and greatly delighted I was to know you were pleased with the appreciation of your wonderful picture. You do not think so highly of your own work as your admirers do, or you could not be surprised at any sum being offered for one of your chief pictures. I am sure Mr Graham's offer was bona fide, as he asked me to find out if the possessor would take the sum mentioned, and as he was willing to give it. £10,000 is a large...
Dates:
1874 May 17
Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis, 1874 November 22
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"Nov 22 '74. My dear Mr Lewis, A letter from you comes like the sun thro' this dingy abomination called fog. It would have shocked me had I known such an idea as coming here this weather had even entered your head as a possibility. So far as I am concerned, election to R. A-ship is a point of no great consequence, as I care nothing for fancy titles, and do not like my time to be taken up by Council meetings, and A.R.A.-ship suits me very well indeed, as I get most of the fun and only a...
Dates:
1874 November 22
Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis, 1875 January 17
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"Jan 17 '75. My dear Mr Lewis, It is all very well to say "do not answer this"; but I have too good a sense of my privileges to obey such an injunction. In the "Apocrypha" I remember reading in the days of my youth - "If thou knowest a wise man let thy feet wear his doorstep"; - but as I cannot do this I may help to wear out his door-knocker. Since my return from Venice my time has been wholly taken up or I should have thanked you before for your most kind and...
Dates:
1875 January 17
Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis, 1875 May 30
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"May 30 1875. My dear Lewis, I hope you are getting better with the bright weather. I came down to spend the day at this lovely place, - the seat of the great Earl Chatham - and having nothing to do but enjoy myself I make a part of that enjoyment saying how-d'ye-do to you. I am truly sorry you do not get strong quickly; and not only on your own account, and on account of art, but also on my own, for I want the pleasure of seeing you. I am Visitor in the Life School till the middle of June;...
Dates:
1875 May 30
Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis, 1875 June 21
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"June 21, '75. My dear Lewis, It rejoiced my life to see your hand again on paper, and I hope next Friday to behold your veritable countenance, and to hold that hand in my own. It is very good to offer me a bed, but will you smile on my petition? - Instead of staying all night and possibly putting you to some trouble, may I bring my wife to spend the afternoon with you? It will be a joy for her to remember all her life making her bow to you in your own house. There are two convenient...
Dates:
1875 June 21
Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis, 1875 July 18
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"July 18 '75. My dear Lewis, I met [Gustave?] Pope at the Mansion House last night and was pained to hear that you were lain up unwell again. I was going to ask if I might run down again before the summer was over to look at your sketches, but now I must wait till you are strong enough again to see anyone. In fact I did not feel sure that a letter would not bother you till Pope said it would rather amuse than otherwise. I cannot tell you the pleasure it is to us to remember the delightful...
Dates:
1875 July 18
Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis, 1874 April 19
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"Ap: 19 '74. My dear Mr Lewis, Many thanks for your kind letter; and I have no doubt the R. Academy will wish to support a petition with so good an object. I saw Dobson last evening and he told me the council were not busy now, so that maybe they will take notice of this matter. I grieve to have such a poor account of you from yourself. After such a long habit of close work to be denied it is indeed a loss. But the loss belongs to us all almost more than to you. It will give me great pleasure...
Dates:
1874 April 19
Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis, 1874 August 29
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"Aug: 29 '74. My dear Mr Lewis, The friends of J.H. Foley are anxious he should be buried in St. Pauls, and Canon Liddon tells me that we must have two or three of the chief names in art to support the application: will you kindly send me your aid writing a letter in support of the plan that I may receive on Monday morning. I have to see the Canon at 2 P.M. on Monday to present the letters and help him select the site. You see there is no time to be lost. The Canon proposes Thursday next for...
Dates:
1874 August 29