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Tristram James Ellis

Tristram James Ellis (1844 - 1922) was active/lived in United Kingdom, England, France.  Tristram Ellis is known for Watercolor landscape and marine painting, etching, book illustration.

Tristram Ellis began his career as an engineer on the District and Metropolitan Railway in London, but around 1868 he decided to devote himself to working as an artist, leaving England in 1874 to train in the studio of Léon Bonnat in Paris. In 1878 he visited Cyprus, the first of an extensive series of travels throughout Europe, Asia Minor, the Middle East and North Africa. Visits to the Near East in 1879-1880, Egypt in 1881-1882, Portugal in 1883-1884, Greece and Turkey in 1885-1886 and Norway in 1894 resulted in a large number of landscape views in oil and watercolour.

Ellis published several books about his travels, and also contributed illustrations to numerous books by other authors. In 1879 he published Twelve Etchings of the Principle Views & Places of Interest in Cyprus, followed two years later by On a Raft and Through the Desert: The Narrative of an Artist’s Journey Through Northern Syria and Kurdistan, by the Tigris to Mosul and Baghdad, and of a [Displaying 1000 of 2763 characters.]  Artist bio

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