Warner Lewis (1720-1779)

Date: ca. 1755-1758

Warner Lewis was the son of John Lewis and his first wife, Frances Fielding Lewis. He was the second husband of Eleanor Bowles. He lived at Warner Hall. He was the father of Warner Lewis II and Rebecca Lewis.

Dimensions: 49 x 39 in. (124.5 x 99.1 cm.)

The subject is outdoors. He wears a brown jacket and a white waistcoat. His left hand is on his hip while his right hand rests on a stone plinth.

See: Merrow Egerton Sorley, Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, Co., 1935), 70.

Family: Lewis
Location: Warner Hall
Decade: 1750s
Credits: Courtesy of the family of Fielding Lewis Greaves and Miss Nellie Deans Greaves through the Virginia Historical Society.