Artist
John Smith
John Smith is a Baroque artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
John Smith drew the person who carved the limewood cherubs above London’s Whitehall Banqueting House doors. His Portrait of Grinling Gibbons, done between 1690 and 1720, is a delicate line sketch capturing lace folds at the scale of a calling card. The sheet shows Gibbons’ face half-turned, tool marks still fresh on his cheek—proof the artist worked fast and close to his subject. Flip to Gibbons’ own carvings in the Banqueting House to see what held Smith’s eye.
Works by John Smith
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.