'Ruskin's admiration for this painter was great and lasting'( Works, 1.7) and he was 'with Turner, Millais, Prout, Mulready, and Edwin Landseer, one of the artists particularly mentioned in Ruskin's pamphlet on "Pre-Raphaelitism" (1851)' ( Works, 12.326). In Pre-Raphaelitism Ruskin argues that he believes 'John Lewis to have done more entire justice to all his powers ( and they are magnificent ones), then any other man amongst us' ( Works, 12.363). In his discussion of An Armenian Lady:Cairo by John Lewis ( Academy Notes 1855), Ruskin points to the view that:'everything is exquisitely, ineffably right, I say ineffably --for no words are strong enough to express admirable skill and tenderness of pencilling and perception shown in this picture ( Works, 14.12). The Ruskin family art collection included a number of works by John Lewis including: A Fiesta Scene in the South of Spain: Peasants etc of Granada dancing the Bolero (bought by John James Ruskin in April 1837).