John Rubens Smith
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John Rubens Smith | |
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Born | January 23, 1775 London, England |
Died | August 21, 1849 New York City, United States | (aged 74)
John Rubens Smith (January 23, 1775 – August 21, 1849) was a London-born painter, printmaker and art instructor who worked in the United States.
Biography[]
Smith was born in London, England where he first studied art with his father, John Raphael Smith, a mezzotint engraver. He later studied art at the Royal Academy.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Young%27s_Mill_on_the_Brandywine_Creek_-_J.R._Smith._LCCN95511209.jpg/220px-Young%27s_Mill_on_the_Brandywine_Creek_-_J.R._Smith._LCCN95511209.jpg)
Young's Mill on Brandywine Creek
Smith emigrated to New York City from London about 1807. He depicted the United States in the decades before photography, and influenced a generation of American artists through his drawing academies and drawing manuals. He died in New York City.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/A_south_east_view_of_Merchants_Hotel%2C_nth_Fourth_St._Philada%2C_J.M._Sanderson_%26_Son_-_drawn_and_engraved_by_J.R._Smith%2C_Philada._LCCN2011661150.tif/lossy-page1-220px-A_south_east_view_of_Merchants_Hotel%2C_nth_Fourth_St._Philada%2C_J.M._Sanderson_%26_Son_-_drawn_and_engraved_by_J.R._Smith%2C_Philada._LCCN2011661150.tif.jpg)
Merchants Hotel, North 4th Street in Philadelphia
His son John Rowson Smith (1810–1864) was a moving panorama painter who worked with Richard Risley Carlisle.
Works[]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Guann%27s_near_Fort_-_Swift%2C_Brooklyn_-_J.R._Smith%2C_fecit.%2C_1817._LCCN2011645495.jpg/220px-Guann%27s_near_Fort_-_Swift%2C_Brooklyn_-_J.R._Smith%2C_fecit.%2C_1817._LCCN2011645495.jpg)
Guann's near Fort Smith, Brooklyn
- The juvenile drawing-book (1844)
Gallery[]
Catskill Mountain-House
Officer from First Troop, Philadelphia
References[]
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- John Rubens Smith biography at the Library of Congress website (visited June 21, 2010)
- John Rubens Smith Created Pictorial Record of Early America at the Library of Congress website (visited June 21, 2010)
- Vital data at printsandprintmaking.gov.au (visited June 21, 2010)
External links[]
- John Rubens Smith, New York, N.Y. letter to Asher Brown Durand, 1826 May 25 (visited June 21, 2010)
Categories:
- 1775 births
- 1849 deaths
- American educators
- Kingdom of England emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies
- 18th-century American painters
- American male painters
- 19th-century American painters
- 19th-century male artists
- American painter stubs