In pictures: 'Lewis the Gas' show

Carmarthen Quay around 1893

An exhibition of landscape paintings by Benjamin Archibald Lewis opens at Carmarthenshire County Museum in Abergwili on the weekend to round off the museum's centenary year.

View of Laugharne in September 1915

It is the first time the paintings of views from around the county have been on show to the public. The artist, usually known as B A Lewis or Lewis the Gas, as he was manager of the local gas works, lived in Carmarthen and Ferryside.

Pontcarreg Mill in 1911

The exhibition will feature a selection from a large gift of paintings recently given to the museum by one of his grandchildren.

View of Ferryside in the 1930s

Born in Carmarthen in 1857, he moved to Ferryside on his retirement in 1930. He was the father of one of Wales' most important pre-war artists, Edward Morland Lewis.

The Quay at Carmarthen in 1930

His favourite subjects were his home town of Carmarthen and the River Tywi. The exhibition also includes paintings of Ferryside, Solva and Laugharne.

Laugharne in 1915

The father of eleven children died in 1946. Visitors to the museum can compare the paintings of father and son as there is a permanent display of the works of Edward Morlais Lewis.

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