Old Shepheard's Hotel Garden, Cairo (2021) Painting by L'Orientaliste
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Painting,
Acrylic
on Linen Canvas
- Dimensions Height 16in, Width 20in
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Paintings under $500 Oriental Art Everyday Life
Exotic landscape painting of the original old Shepheard's hotel garden in the early 1900s in Egypt.
The painting 16 x 20 inches in acrylic medium by Orientalist artist R Lawrence executed on quality canvas, illustrates a redrawn view of the idlic garden, filled with detail of a variety of colourful shrubs and different lush green shades of foliage to the tiny scarlet flowers we see at the back of the garden hedge over the leafy bushes, which almost shield the garden but for the towering three story Shepheard's hotel overlooking the garden area. The garden is formed of grassy areas carpeting the garden grounds with pathways which disappear into the rear of the garden creating an illusion of depth.
In the garden area there are many palm trees towering over the beautiful garden, evoking daylight behind the cluster of entwined leaves, is a deep blue Egyptian sky fading into a hint of pale pink clouds towards the sun.
Below the palms are guests enjoying the garden. To the right on the grassy area we see a cluster of elegantly dressed ladies wearing wide sweeping hats, sat on ratten garden chairs under a large red parasol as a traditionally dressed Cairo waiter wearing a red fez approaches them.
To the left of the garden is a lady under her parasol admiring the garden flowers. To the far back of the garden a lady under cover of her parasol appears to be walking away towards the hotel.
The view of the garden was first drawn by an unknown artist around early 20th century between 1900 and 1910.
Back story of the old hotel
Shepheard's hotel established in 1841 by Samuel Shepheard, an English man from West Northamptonshire who named it Hotel des Anglais (English Hotel). It was later named Shepheard's hotel. Samuel co-owned the hotel with Mr. Hill, who renounced his interest in the hotel leaving Samuel sole owner until he sold in 1861, retiring in Northamptonshire.
In it's time the hotel was a leading hotel, known for it's luxury, opulence and famous guests and militry. It's decor in pharaonic style, pillars as those at the Temple of Karnak in Luxor. It was furnished with Persian carpets and decorated walls with paintings and drawings of Ancient Egypt to say the least. Surrounding the hotel, lay lavish gardens, large terraces and great pillars. The hotel was renowned throughout the Middle East and Europe and was the centre to social and political events.
Shepherd's hotel was completely destroyed in the Cairo fire in1952, known as Black Saturday.
This painting celebrates the memory of the grand old 19th century hotel, a part of Cairo's history that once hosted a variety of celebrity people, military and travellers, remembered for it's glamour and grandeur during a period known as the golden age of travel.
The original painting which was painted in high quality acrylics on linen, which was one of a pair is sold, and undstand the pair were shipped to Luxor.
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Related themes
Egyptian ArtEgyptian HeritageOld CairoGallery Egyptian PaintingsFrederick Goodall
Artist: Rozlynn M Lawrence-Manasfi
Genre: MENA Orientalist
Middle East and North African "MENA" artist, whose works predominantly represent orientalist era in the arts of ancient Middle East, North Africa, Egypt and Turkey, depicting scenes of Arabian pictorial history in landscape and figurative style.
Fantasy of the Orient
Her paintings are a romantic fantasy of the Orient, populated with exotic rich sensual and colourful scenes of worlds beyond Europe, illustrating rug sellers, dancers, harems, turbaned men in luscious velvet cloaks, the alluring odalisques, women in luxurious clothing, jewelled slippers, silks and velvet gowns with beautiful beaded embellishment, dusty bazaars, souks, snake charmers, with traders in the bustling Arabic markets, selling their wares of beautiful orient trinkets, hookah, lush decorative fabrics, beautiful textiles in vibrant glowing shimmering colours of red, green, gold, blue, yellow and pink, lavish tapestry, beautiful Arabesque tiles, mosques and architecture to the golden sands of the hot desert and palm trees, an oasis set in a mysterious far away land.
About the Artist
English autodidactic painter, born in London, grew up in the 1960's Shoreditch, London.
Her artistic influence expanded and blossomed with the introduction of Orientalism in art in the early 1980's. Beautifully vibrant and lush, she populated a series of Middle East, Orientalist scenes in Watercolour by famous artists Giulio Rosati and Antonio Gargiullo.
By the late 1980's she developed her own style, painting more in oils extending her skills to commissioned work for friends, painting their favourite subjects. In the 1990's a window opened to assist at a local community Sunday art club at Napier Grove N1, run by artists for the local community, thus proving opportunity to interact with other artists an opportunity to network, show and exhibit her works at the club, with encouragement to show and sell her paintings to a wider audience.
Exhibitions and Selling
In the past a handful of paintings were shown in the gallery space at the Lion and Lamb, Hoxton, she exhibited a painting in the London Mall Gallery in the 1980's, but rarely participate in exhibitions, painting being secondary to her main professional career, nevertheless the Artist has successfully sold most of her works, as demonstrated by the steady sales of her paintings in the UK and Europe to private clients and galleries.
A collection of her paintings can be viewed at her portfolio on the Artmajeur Gallery website. Details about the Artist are documented on Wikipedia.
Some much earlier paintings bear the FAR branding with FAR tags. These were documented on the Fine Art Registry (FAR) until FAR abandoned hundreds of artists without warning, the site went down in 2012 with no recovery of digital images. Fortunately, most digital images were curated on the Artmajeur platform.
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Nationality:
UNITED KINGDOM
- Date of birth : 1958
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary British Artists
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