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Isabel and Florence worked for Royal Doulton from the 1870s to the 1890s, when the highly decorative 'Lambeth Faience' style was at its height of popularity; exceptionally for the time, Florence even became head of the Faience department and teacher to about seventy students.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAround 1898 the two sisters retired from the potteries and relocated to Croydon, from which time they both focused on their personal art, travelling together, sketching and exhibiting in the opening decades of the 20th century. Our collection of works by Isabel Lewis evidences their Continental travels and her preference for 'en plein air' landscape and animal subjects. In particular, the works embody a sense of modernity, their naturalistic subjects viewed through a decorative lens: her colours are at times post-impressionistic and her forms fluid and flattened, patterned and ethereal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccompanying the collection was a print of 'The Shepherdess' by the French artist Henry Lerolle (1848–1929), which features a flock of sheep that possibly provided inspiration for Lewis's own sheep compositions. Lerolle was a friend and patron of many leading French artists at the end of the 19th century, including 'Les Nabis' post-impressionist artists Maurice Denis and Edouard Vuillard. Lerolle's own pastoral style evoked the work of Jules Bastien-Lepage and in turn, Isabel Lewis's pastoral sketches seem to embody the move towards decorative naturalism that was exemplified by artists such as the 'Glasgow Boy' Joseph Crawhall (1861–1913).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late 19th century, more than 300 women were employed at Doulton’s Lambeth pottery but it was nevertheless a man's world: Henry Doulton believed that the 'true sphere of woman is the family and household'. The work of female decorative artists has so often been lost to the annals of time, but the place that such artists occupied in the story of European modernism should not be overlooked.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"isabel-lewis-seated-peasant-woman-france-original-c-1900s-watercolour-painting-ka-652","title":"Isabel Lewis, Seated Peasant Woman, France – c.1900s watercolour painting","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original c.1900s watercolour painting, Isabel Lewis, Seated Peasant Woman, France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautiful watercolour sketch by the interesting Royal Doulton artist Isabel Lewis (fl.c.1870s–1920s). Lewis studied at Lambeth School of Art along with her sister, Florence E. Lewis, after which they found successful employment decorating Royal Doulton pottery. From 1898 onwards they relocated to Croydon to focus on their art, travelling, sketching and painting. 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