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Lewis was born in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia on 14 June He was the second of eight children and had a passion for drawing. At the age of 15, he left home and traveled in New South Wales, Australia, working as a post hole digger and a merchant seaman. He returned to Sydney and settled into a Bohemian community outside Sydney.

Two of his drawings were published in the radical Sydney newspaper, The Bulletin. Ashton, a famous painter, was also one of the first Australian artists to take up printmaking. In , Lewis left Australia for the United States.

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His first job was in San Francisco, painting stage decorations for William McKinley's presidential campaign of By , Lewis was living in New York, where he found work in commercial illustration. His earliest known etching is dated However, the level of skill in this piece suggests he had been working in the medium for some time previously. It was during this period that he helped Edward Hopper learn the basics of etching.