John Smart
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Accomplished academic, systems theorist, and Singularity analyst. President of the Institute for Accelerating Change. Author of the website http://www.SingularityWatch.com.
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 John Smart circa 1795-1800 |
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| Born | circa 1740 Norfolk, England |
| Died | 1811 |
| Nationality | English |
| Field | Painter of Portrait Miniatures |
John Smart (painter) (c. 1740 - 1811), was one of the greatest English painters of portrait miniatures. He was a contemporary of Richard Cosway, George Engleheart, William Wood and Richard Crosse.
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[edit] Biography
He was born in Norfolk, but not much is known of his early life. It is recorded that in 1755 he was runner up to Richard Cosway in a drawing competition for under fourteens held by the 'Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce of Arts'. In the same year he began attending the new drawing school of William Shipley in London, along with Cosway and Richard Crosse.
Smart exhibited at the Society of Artists, in London, from 1762 onwards; and became its president in 1778. He went to India in 1788 and obtained a number of commissions in that country. He settled down in London in 1797 and there died. He married Edith Vere, and is believed to have had only one son, who died in Madras in 1809.
He was a man of simple habits, and a member of the Society of Sandemanians. Many of his pencil drawings still exist in the possession of the descendants of a great friend of his only sister. Several of his miniatures are in Australia and belong to a cadet branch of the family.
His work is entirely different from that of Cosway, quiet and grey in its colouring, with the flesh tints elaborated with much subtlety and modelled in exquisite fashion. He possessed a great knowledge of anatomy, and his portraits are drawn with greater anatomical accuracy and possess more distinction than those of any miniature painter of his time.
He mainly painted watercolour on ivory, and often clearly signed and dated his work. Quite a number of his preparatory drawings and sketches also survive.
[edit] Examples of Smart's work
 John Smart - Portrait of Unknown Man - Dated 1767 - Victoria & Albert Museum |
 Portrait of the Hon Miss Eliza Booth - Dated 1766 - Victoria & Albert Museum |
 John Smart - Portrait of Unknown Woman - Dated 1779 - Victoria & Albert Museum |
 John Smart - Portrait of Unknown Woman - Dated 1780 - Victoria & Albert Museum |
 John Smart - Portrait of a Member of the Tayler Family - Dated 1787 - Frame with bracelet fitting - Victoria & Albert Museum |
 Sir Robert Brooke probably c.1788, by John Smart |
 Watercolor on ivory portrait miniature of a lady by John Smart, 1782, 5.1 x 4.1 cm, Cincinnati Art Museum |
[edit] References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press.
[edit] Further reading
- GC Williamson, The History of Portrait Miniatures, vol. ii. (London, 1904).
- Foskett, Daphne (1987). Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide. London: Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1851490639.
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