Toufic Johariya is a Palestinian artist born in Jerusalem in 1891, son of Geryes Johariya, a prominent iconographer. The young Toufic was the disciple of Nicolas Saig, a professional iconographer and painter in Jerusalem.
Toufic Johariya was taught art through copying from photography: he drew a grid on the photographs, then reproduced every detail on a gridded paper using charcoal. As a final step, he transposed his image onto the canvas with oil or watercolors.

Following his professor’s footsteps, Johariya’s works relied mostly on the tourist market demands. He earned his living by selling his paintings to foreign tourists in Jerusalem. 
He painted churches, monasteries, portraits, local landscapes, maritime sceneries, and sometimes mosques, in a realistic style.

Toufic Johariya passed away in 1944.

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