- Neville Lewis
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Alfred Neville Lewis (1895 - 1972) was a South African artist. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and educated there and, later, at the Slade School of Art in London.
His father was the Reverend A. J. S. Lewis, who on 4 October 1929, officially opened the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway.
Neville married Theo Townshend a fellow student. He became a member of the New English Art Club in 1920. When his marriage broke up in 1922 his two sons Tom and David went to Cape Town where they were raised by their grandparents and his daughter Catherine stayed with his ex wife.
He served in World War I in France, Belgium, and Italy.
During World War II he carried on producing portraits in oil. He frequently painted and drew black South Africans.
He married Countess Rosa Cecilie Karoline-Mathilde Irene Sibylla Anna zu Solms-Baruth, daughter of Friedrich, 3rd Prince of Solms-Baruth and his wife Princess Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, on 3 November 1955 and settled on Rowan Street, Stellenbosch where their children Caroline and Frederick Henry Lewis attended school.
Later the couple acquired a small holding opposite the Stellenbosch Golf Club where his wife and children could pursue their love of horse riding. After his death in 1972 his wife married Weber.
Art works
- King Sobhuza II portrait of Sobhuza II of Swaziland
- Lt Col (Mrs) Doreen Dunning (1941)
- Young girl with scarf
- Pondo girl with a blue blanket
- Pondo woman
- Portrait of Lucas Majozi (1942)
- Seated nude
External links
Categories:- 1895 births
- 1972 deaths
- South African artists
- People from Cape Town
- Anglo-African people
- War artists
- Alumni of the Slade School of Art
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