Judith Lewis (painter)

Judith Lewis
Family Hunting Party (1756) by Judith Lewis
Died6 April 1781 Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationPainter Edit this on Wikidata
Spouse(s)John Lewis Edit this on Wikidata
FamilyStephen Slaughter Edit this on Wikidata

Judith Slaughter Lewis (died 6 April 1781) was an English equestrian painter.

Judith Lewis was the brother of painter Stephen Slaughter. She later married John Lewis, though historians disagree on whether or not this was the same man as the Irish painter.[1]

She exhibited her work with the Society of Artists of Great Britain and it was praised by Horace Walpole, who wrote that she "excelled in imitating bronzes and bas reliefs to the highest degree of deception".[1] Two signed canvases by her are known to exist, both equestrian conversation pieces in the style of John Wootton. A third canvas bears her initials, a portrait of two children, Herbert Hickman Windsor and Charlotte Jane Windsor, in a landscape.[2] Some art experts believe the children are by Thomas Frye and only the landscape and animals by Lewis.[3]

Judith Lewis died on 6 April 1781.[4]

  1. ^ a b Lord, Peter (2005). "The Two Lives of John Lewis". Irish Arts Review (2002-). 22 (1): 114–119. ISSN 1649-217X. JSTOR 25503176.
  2. ^ Crookshank, Anne (2002). Ireland's painters, 1600-1940. Internet Archive. New Haven : published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09765-8.
  3. ^ "Conversation piece of the Hon. Herbert Hickman Windsor, dressed in Hussars' uniform with his sister Charlotte Jane, later Countess of Bute, with their dog and other pet animals in a landscape | Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction, Part I | 2023".
  4. ^ Lauze, Emma (2004-09-23). "Slaughter, Stephen (bap. 1697, d. 1765), portrait painter". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1 (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25721. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)