Bedouins by the Dead Sea

Caroline Grey-Hill specialised in views of the Near East, painted whilst travelling in Turkey, Syria and Jordan, amongst other places. She worked in watercolour and oil paint to depict sparse, highly coloured and romanticised landscapes, conveying a sympathetic but essentially an Orientalist's perspective on countries foreign to her.

Gray-Hill was born in 1843 and travelled extensively in the Near East where she painted the scenes she saw in oil and watercolour, exhibting many of these at the Liverpool Autumn Exhibitions. She experienced kidnap, arrest and ransom whilst travelling and painting. She died in 1924.