JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS, R.A. (1804-1876)

Lewis travelled to Spain in 1832, reaching Madrid by mid-July. The present work may have been one of the several pictures of Spanish life that Lewis exhibited at the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1834 and 1835. The woman on the heavily laden mule is similar to the lithograph, Peasant Girl on a mule, Andalusia, plate 9 in Lewis's Sketches of Spain & Spanish Character made during his Tour in that Country, in the Years 1833-34, London 1836.
We are grateful to Briony Llewellyn for her help in preparing this catalogue entry.