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Luigi Mayer was an Italian-German artist and one of the earliest and most important late 18th-century European painters of the Ottoman Empire. Mayer was a close friend of Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet, a British ambassador to Turkey between 1776 and 1792, and the bulk of his paintings and drawings during this period were commissioned by Ainslie. He travelled extensively through the Ottoman Empire between 1776 and 1794, and became well known for his sketches and paintings of panoramic landscapes of ancient sites from the Balkans to the Greek Islands, Turkey and Egypt, particularly ancient monuments and the Nile. Many of the works were amassed in Ainslie's collection, which was later presented to the British Museum, providing a valuable insight into the Middle East of that period. His wife, Clara Barthold Mayer, worked as his assistant and produced her own paintings.
Artworks by this artist (100 total)
- Ponte grande 1810
- Port of Latachia 1810
- Part of Jerusalem 1810
- Pitesti 1810
- Tombs of Great Arab Saints to be seen in the Neighborhood of Rosetta, Egypt ca. 1800
- Pillar to which was affixed the sentence passed on our Saviour 1804
- Sepulchre of Rachel 1804
- Sepulchres of the kings of Judah 1804
- Church of the Holy Sepulchre 1810
- Piccolo Bent 1810
- Sepulchres of the judges of Israel 1804
- Tomb of the Virgin Mary 1804
- Monument on the Coast of Syria 1810
- Temple of Jupiter Ammon in Libya 1810
- Aqueduct near Ephesus 1810
- Kirkclisia 1810
- The Island of Tortosa 1810
- Arab men discovering the interior of a pyramid
- Caravansary at Borgas 1810
- Mount Balkan 1810