Henry Pember Smith
Illustration — Landscape, undated Henry Pember Smith (February 20, 1854 – October 16, 1907) was an American painter, best known for his depictions of country cottages and river scenes around Lyme and East Lyme, Connecticut, and paintings of the sea and shore in New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Cape Ann to Maine. Smith was born in Waterford, Connecticut. During the 1880s, he studied the Old Masters in Paris, Brittany, Normandy, Venice and along the English Cornish coast.
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Henry Pember Smith
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- Born
- 1854
- Died
- 1907 · Asbury Park.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- landscape
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Illustration — Landscape, undated Henry Pember Smith (February 20, 1854 – October 16, 1907) was an American painter, best known for his depictions of country cottages and river scenes around Lyme and East Lyme, Connecticut, and paintings of the sea and shore in New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Cape Ann to Maine. Smith was born in Waterford, Connecticut. During the 1880s, he studied the Old Masters in Paris, Brittany, Normandy, Venice and along the English Cornish coast.
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Born at New London County in 1854, died in Asbury Park in 1907.
Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City. Work by Henry Pember Smith is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brandywine Museum of Art, Clark Art Institute and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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- Margaret C. Conrads, American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Hudson Hills Press Inc, New York, 1997.
- Tom Davies, Collecting Stories, 400 Paintings- 400 Stories: A Collection of American Painting, Laynfaroh, New Canaan, 2007.
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