Artist

William Collingwood Smith

Kensington Gardens
Streatham Common
Landscape with bridge and cattle

William Collingwood Smith is a British Romanticism artist. 3 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

English watercolourists of the 1800s captured parks and lanes with quiet detail. William Collingwood Smith painted Streatham Common in 1871 and earlier strolled Kensington Gardens in 1849, both in transparent washes on paper. His “Landscape with bridge and cattle” (about 1835–70) shows the same careful eye for light on foliage and water. To step into their world, tap Streatham Common and look for the bandstand and scattered figures under a cloudy sky.

Works by William Collingwood Smith

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert 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.

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