John Smibert

Work by John Smibert is held by Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum and Yale University Art Gallery.

42 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1719 to 1939.

Hannah Pemberton, dated 1734, held by Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory 43.51. Francis Brinley, dated 1729, held by Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory 62.79.1. Mrs. Francis Brinley and Her Son Francis, dated 1729, held by Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory 62.79.2. Nathaniel Byfield, dated 1730, held by Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory 24.109.87. John Nelson, dated 1732, held by Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, inventory 1979.7.93. Captain John Garish, dated 1737, held by Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1959.517. Richard Bill, dated 1733, held by Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1944.28. A Member of the Livingston Family, dated 1740, held by Smithsonian American Art Museum, inventory 2006.11. Judge Edmund Quincy, dated 1737, held by Museum of Fine Arts Boston, inventory 76.348. Mrs. James MacSparran (Hannah Gardiner), dated 1732, held by Museum of Fine Arts Boston, inventory 88.289. John Turner, dated 1737, held by Museum of Fine Arts Boston, inventory 18.663. Mrs. Tyng, dated 1729, held by Museum of Fine Arts Boston, inventory 29.792. Judge Samuel Sewall, dated 1729, held by Museum of Fine Arts Boston, inventory 58.358. Thomas Hancock, dated 1730, held by Museum of Fine Arts Boston, inventory 65.1664. Judge Charles Chambers, dated 1743, held by Museum of Fine Arts Boston, inventory 68.597. William Dudley, dated 1729, held by Museum of Fine Arts Boston, inventory 1979.768. Mrs. William Dudley (Elizabeth Davenport), dated 1729, held by Museum of Fine Arts Boston, inventory 1979.769. Daniel, Peter, and Andrew Oliver, dated 1732, held by Museum of Fine Arts Boston, inventory 53.952. Parting of Hector and Andromache, held by Museum of Fine Arts Boston, inventory 64.2053. Portrait of Catherine Lyde, dated 1729, held by Philadelphia Museum of Art, inventory 1995-67-1. Portrait of Major General Paul Mascarene, dated 1729, held by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, inventory 78.8. Benjamin Moreland, High Master of St. Paul's School, dated 1724, held by Yale Center for British Art, inventory B1981.25.576. Sir John Rushout, Bt., dated 1726, held by Yale Center for British Art, inventory B1981.25.577. Sir Francis Grant, Lord Cullen, 1658 - 1726. Judge, dated 1720, held by National Galleries Scotland, inventory PG 1521. Colonel George Douglas, later 12th Earl of Morton (1662 - 1738), dated 1727, held by National Galleries Scotland, inventory NG 2212. George Berkeley, dated 1730, held by National Portrait Gallery, inventory NPG 653. Portrait of Mary Pemberton (1717–1763), dated 1734, held by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, inventory B.72.8. Portrait of Samuel Pemberton, dated 1734, held by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, inventory B.72.7. Bishop George Berkeley, dated 1727, held by National Portrait Gallery, inventory NPG.89.25. Portrait of Sir Francis Grant, Lord Cullen, and His Family, dated 1719, held by SCAD Museum of Art, inventory 142. Edward Winslow (1699-1753), dated 1730, held by Yale University Art Gallery, inventory 1935.153. The Bermuda Group (Dean Berkeley and His Entourage), dated 1750, held by Yale University Art Gallery, inventory 1808.1. Reverend Joseph Sewall (1688-1769), dated 1735, held by Yale University Art Gallery, inventory 1973.62. Mrs. Edward Tyng (Anne Waldo) (1708- before 1754), dated 1733, held by Yale University Art Gallery, inventory 1944.86. Portrait of a Man in a Dressing Gown, dated 1730, held by Slovak National Gallery, inventory O 5477. Unknown man, held by Fitzwilliam Museum, inventory 642. Thomas Hill (formerly Harwood) (1693-1782), dated 1722, held by National Trust, inventory 609036. Portrait of a Woman (Judith Colman Bulfinch?), dated 1734, held by Cleveland Museum of Art, inventory 1920.3919. Portrait of the Clark Children, dated 1746, held by Q2148186, inventory 23.347. Mrs. James Pitts, dated 1735, held by Detroit Institute of Arts, inventory 58.352. The notebook of John Smibert. A letter from Dr. Williams Smibert, of Boston, to his former fellow-student at Edinburgh, Dr. John Morgan, of Philadelphia, written February 14, 1769 / [commentary] by W.B. McDaniel., dated 1939, held by Wellcome Collection.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 14 named public collections.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 11 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Metropolitan Museum of Art: 5 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Yale University Art Gallery: 4 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. National Portrait Gallery: 3 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Art Institute of Chicago: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Yale Center for British Art: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. National Galleries Scotland: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Cleveland Museum of Art: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Detroit Institute of Arts: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 10 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. The Art Institute of Chicago: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. The Cleveland Museum of Art: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

5 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Smibert, John, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011. Smibert, John, Oxford Art Online, 2003. Smibert or Smybert, John (1684–1751), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2018. Smibert, John (1688-1751), portrait painter, American National Biography Online, 2000. John Smibert, un peintre écossais dans les colonies britanniques d’Amérique du Nord, Études Écossaises, 2012.

7 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

Mrs. Francis Brinley and Her Son Francis (1729) — Internet Archive. James Gooch (1730) — Internet Archive. Francis Brinley (1729) — Internet Archive. Portrait of a Woman (Judith Colman Bulfinch?) (1734) — Internet Archive. Portrait of a Woman (possibly Mrs. James [Hester Stanton Plaisted] Gooch) (1730) — Internet Archive. Hannah Pemberton (1734) — Internet Archive. Samuel Sewall (1729) — Internet Archive.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 8 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 8 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 8 means 8 genuinely separate publishers of record. 10 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

training under Godfrey Kneller is recorded. the recorded working language is English.

The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. The authority associates the name with realism.

Places of work recorded in the authority are Scotland and United States.

Work by John Smibert is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Yale University Art Gallery and Slovak National Gallery.