Artists
Name
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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, John Rubens | ![]()
John Rubens
Smith (January 23, 1775 London - August 21, 1849 New York City) was a
London-born painter, printmaker and art instructor who worked in the United
States.
Biography
Smith was
born in England where he first studied art with his father, John Raphael Smith,
a mezzotint engraver. He later studied art at the Royal Academy.
Smith
emigrated... | 1775 - 1849 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
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, Mary Russell | ![]()
Mary
Russell Smith was born at Edgehill, close to
Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. She was a true lover of
nature and all the things of nature, wandering the fields and woods near her
childhood home, gathering objects that caught her eye. Smith had much influence
to become an an artist
because all in her family were painters. Her father, Russell, was a... | 1842 - 1878 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 |
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 |