Artist
John Rubens Smith
American, 1775–1849
John Rubens Smith was an American Romanticism painter. 5 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them watercolors. John Rubens Smith was born in London.
Overview
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 where he first studied art with his father, John Raphael Smith, a mezzotint engraver. Smith later studied art at the Royal Academy.
Around 1807, Smith emigrated from London to New York City. 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.
His son John Rowson Smith was a moving panorama painter who worked with Richard Risley Carlisle.
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