James David Smillie

James David Smillie studied at National Academy of Design. The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City. Work by James David Smillie is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, New Britain Museum of American Art and Print Collection.

• Name — James David Smillie • Born — 16 January 1833 • Birthplace — New York, New York • Died — 15 September 1909 • Place of death — New York, New York • Occupation — Artist • Relatives — George Henry Smillie (brother), Helen Sheldon Jacobs Smillie (sister in-law) • Father — James Smillie • Children — 2

• Illustration — Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard James David Smillie was born in New York City on January 16, 1833, to parents Catherine (née Vans Valkenburgh) and Scottish-born artist James S. Smillie (1807–1885). His brother, George Henry Smillie, was also a painter. His father, James Smillie (engraver), was a engraver, who emigrated from Scotland to New York in 1829. His father was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1851, did much, with his uncle William Cumming (1813–1908), to develop the engraving of bank-notes, and was an excellent landscape-engraver. The son studied with him and in the National Academy of Design; engraved on steel vignettes for bank-notes and some illustrations, notably F. O. C. Darley's pictures for James Fenimore Cooper's novels; was elected an associate of the National Academy in 1865—the year after he first began painting—and an academician in 1876; and was a founder (1866) of the American Water Color Society, of which he was treasurer in 1866–73 and president in 1873–78, and of the New York Etching Club. He married Anna C. Cook in 1881. Among his paintings, in oils, are Evening among the Sierras (1876) and The Cliffs of Normandy (1885), and in water colour, A Scrub Race (1876) and The Passing Herd (1888). He wrote and illustrated the article on the Yosemite in Picturesque America. A portrait of Smillie by Henry Augustus Loop is in the collection of the National Academy of Design, as is another by James Hamilton Shegogue. James David Smillie died on September 15, 1909, at his home in New York City. He was survived by his two children.

James David Smillie is recorded as painter, watercolorist, artist, printmaker and draftsperson.