John Henry Amschewitz ( 1882 - 1942 ) was a British painter active/lived in South Africa, United Kingdom. John Amshewitz is known for Abstract portrait, figure and genre painting. Born Ramsgate, England, 1882. Amshewitz studied at the Art Academy in Edinburgh, at the RA Schools under John Singer Sargant, and was elected to the RBA in 1914. He was considered a South African artist, even though h