Alfred Neville Lewis (1895–1972) was a South African artist. He was born in

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, and educated there and, later, at the

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. His father was the Reverend A. J. S. Lewis, who was

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, and on 4 October 1929, officially opened the

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. Neville married Theo Townshend a fellow student. He became a member of the

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in 1920. When his marriage broke up in 1922 his two sons Tom and David went to Cape Town where they were raised by their grandparents and his daughter Catherine stayed with his ex-wife. He served in

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, and

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. During

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he carried on producing portraits in oil. He frequently painted and drew black South Africans. Lewis painted three portraits of Field Marshal

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. He also painted several persons actively involved in the war effort ranging from a member of the South African Native Military Corps to a nurse. Several of these images were used for postage stamps during the war. He married Countess Rosa Cecilie Karoline-Mathilde Irene Sibylla Anna zu Solms-Baruth, daughter of Friedrich, 3rd Prince of Solms-Baruth and his wife Princess Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, on 3 November 1955 and settled on Rowan Street,

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where their children Caroline and Frederick Henry Lewis attended school. Later the couple acquired a small holding opposite the Stellenbosch Golf Club where his wife and children could pursue their love of

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. After his death in 1972 his wife married Weber. The painting Portrait of

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by Lewis was burned by demonstrators during the

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upheaval at the

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in February 2016.''GroundUp'', 9 June 2017
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References

Art works

King Sobhuza II
portrait of Sobhuza II of Swaziland
Lt Col (Mrs) Doreen Dunning (1941)

Young girl with scarf

Pondo girl with a blue blanket

Pondo woman

Portrait of Lucas Majozi (1942)

Seated nude
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Job Maseko Job Maseko was a South African soldier during World War II, serving in the Native Military Corps as part of the South African 2nd Infantry Division. He was one of many Allied troops captured by the Axis in the surrender of the port of Tobr ...

, Job Masego, Black South African soldier who sunk a German supply boat in the Tobruk Harbour during World War II.

External links

Neville Lewis - Family reference

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