Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smith, Allen | 
Allen
Smith, Jr., met with considerable success in the Midwest as a portraitist. He
studied briefly with William D. Parisen (1800-1832) while attending the antique
classes at the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York. Smith also attended
the antique class of the National Academy of Design, where he won a prize in
1833. He exhibited at the... | 1810 - 1890 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Smith, Dana |
Very little
is known about Dana Smith, the supposed painter of the National Gallery's
painting Southern Resort Town (1971.83.11) and New Hampshire Panorama (also a Garbisch gift, to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
According to the Garbisch records, he was born in New
Hampshire in 1805, lived in Franklin where he painted local scenes and died... | 1805 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Smith, Henry Pember | 1854 - 1907 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Smith, James Passmore | 1803 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Smith, Joseph B. |
A
traditional American marine artist in ever sense, it
is unusual for an artist to exhibit such a high level of quality, which Joseph
B. Smith does, and have only two dozen or so known surviving works to his
credit. The majority of works were performed in conjunction with his son,
William S. Smith; born in 1821. Their partnership appears to have... | 1796 - 1876 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Smith, Phebe A. | Born 1840 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Smith, Royall Brewster |
Born in
Buxton, Maine, 7 August 1801, the artist was probably named after the Smith
family's physician, Dr. Royal Brewster. As the eleventh of fourteen children of
John McCurdy and Elizabeth McLellan Smith, Royall
successfully survived a childhood of limited financial means and some illness
to become a successful artisan.
Between
1830 and 1837,... | 1801 - 1855 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Smith, Rufus Way | 1840 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Smith, Russell | 1812 - 1896 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Smith, Thomas |
Thomas
Smith was a seventeenth-century Anglo-American mariner and artist. He is the
earliest painter in New England for whom a specific canvas can
be—identified his self-portrait (fig. 1). Based on stylistic similarities
to that painting, five additional surviving works have been attributed to
Smith. Besides his role as an artist, interpretations... | 1650 - 1691 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
