BOATING ON THE NILE, 1899. Tristram Ellis, in fine original Alfred Stiles frame

Tristram James Ellis
British, 1844 (Great Malvern)-1922.

BOATING ON THE NILE, 1899.
Watercolor, 28 x 21".
Signed lower left: Tristram Ellis, Nile 1899.

Glazed and framed in fine original frame and gold mat, with framer's label on back for the eminent framer
ALFRED STILES
Practical Gilder and Picture Frame
625 Fulham Road
Walham Green, SW


Ellis worked as an engineer on the Britain's District and Metropolitan Railways before studying art in Paris. He traveled in Syria in 1880, produced a number of Norwegian views around 1893 and visited Cyprus in 1879.

He was a book illustrator and authored his own work On a Raft, and through the Desert which was published in London, in 2 volumes with 38 etched plates plus illustrations in the text, in 1881.

In 1896 and 1898 he traveled in Egypt, Cyprus, Turkey and Russia.

A member of the Royal Society of Painters and Etchers, he was exhibiting regularly in London from 1868 to 1893.

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