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Edmund Darch Lewis Biography
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Studied under German-born Paul Weber (1823-1916), formerly court painter to the Grand-Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt
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Began exhibiting at the age of nineteen, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and continued to do so until 1891
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Devoted himself to collecting decorative art: tapestries, furniture, objets d’art, precious ceramics, as well as paintings of old and modern masters.
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Had two adjoining homes built on South 22nd Street in Philadelphia to show off his collection and to entertain members of fashionable society
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