Lewis Henry Meakin (1850–1917) was an English-born American landscape painter and an important figure in Cincinnati’s artistic community at the turn of the twentieth century. Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, Meakin came from a prominent family of pottery manufacturers. After living briefly in Canada, his family settled in Cincinnati in 1863.

Meakin studied at Cincinnati’s McMicken School of Design, where he trained alongside the generation of artists that included Frank Duveneck and John Henry Twachtman. He later continued his artistic education in Europe, studying and traveling in Germany, France, Holland, and Italy. Like many Cincinnati artists of his generation, his European training had a lasting influence on his approach to landscape painting.

Best known for his landscapes, Meakin painted extensively in Cincinnati and along the Ohio River, as well as in New England, Canada, and the American West. Gloucester and Cape Ann, Massachusetts, became particularly important summer painting destinations. His work evolved from the darker, atmospheric tonalism associated with late nineteenth-century landscape painting toward a brighter and increasingly Impressionistic treatment of color and light.

Meakin became one of the leading landscape painters associated with Cincinnati during his lifetime. His paintings record both the familiar landscapes of the Ohio Valley and the broader artistic networks that connected Cincinnati painters with New England, Europe, and the American West. His work remains an important part of the history of American landscape painting in Cincinnati and the Midwest.