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WEEKS, Edwin Lord, artist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He studied under Jean L. Gerome and Leon Bonnat in Paris, and has travelled through Egypt, Syria, and other oriental countries, where the scenes of most of his works are laid. He has exhibited frequently at the salon in Paris, receiving honorable mention in 1885. Among his paintings are "A Cup of Coffee in the Desert," "A Scene in Tangiers," " Pilgrimage to the Jordan," "Jerusalem to the Bethany Road," "Alhambra Windows," "They Toil not, neither do they Spin," "A Prayer in the Desert," and " A Blacksmith's Shop in Tangiers." His "An Arab Story-Teller" was at the Centennial exhibition (Philadelphia, 1876), "A Moorish Camel-Driver" at the salon of 1878, and his " Departure for the Hunt, India" (1884), is in the Corcoran gallery, Washington.
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