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Reginald Henry Lewis

English painter (1894–1973)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ16007426 ↗
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Reginald Henry Lewis (1894–1973), was an English painter and portrait artist.

Reginald Lewis trained at the Royal Academy and for 7 years was apprenticed to the architect and designer, Sir Frank Brangwyn. He also worked as assistant to Frank Owen Salisbury.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Reginald Henry Lewis” is english painter (1894–1973). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Reginald, Henry and Lewis, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1894, 1973—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1894-01-01. For this dossier, Reginald, Henry and Lewis is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16007426. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1894 and 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from “Reginald Henry Lewis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.