Thomas Smith
Illustration — South West Prospect of Coalbrook Dale, 1758 engraving by François Vivares after Smith and George Perry Thomas Smith (died 12 September 1767), also known as Thomas Smith of Derby, was a landscape painter and father of John Raphael Smith and miniaturist painter Thomas Corregio Smith. Smith painted many landscapes including historic houses like Chatsworth and views of the Lake District. These are among the earliest industrial landscapes.
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Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith · http: 17 November 2010 · Public domain
- Born
- 1715 · Derby.
- Died
- 1767 · Bristol.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- landscape
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — South West Prospect of Coalbrook Dale, 1758 engraving by François Vivares after Smith and George Perry Thomas Smith (died 12 September 1767), also known as Thomas Smith of Derby, was a landscape painter and father of John Raphael Smith and miniaturist painter Thomas Corregio Smith. Smith painted many landscapes including historic houses like Chatsworth and views of the Lake District. These are among the earliest industrial landscapes.
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Smith's 1751 painting "An Extensive Landscape with Hunting Party" was sold for over $67,000 at an auction at Sotheby's. He painted the picture in 1751, a year before his son was born and sixteen years before his death. There are several of his paintings and those of his son in Derby Art Gallery and examples too in British institutions like Bradford Museum and Galleries and in the Government Art Collection.
The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Work by Thomas Smith is recorded in the collections of Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Yale Center for British Art, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery and Cartwright Hall Art Gallery.
View of Coalbrookdale ironworks, Shropshire, England.
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Blick auf den Kurort Matlock in Derbyshire, Vorlage J. Smith, hrsg. J. Boydell London 1769, kolorierte Radierung/Papier, 39 x 55 cm
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1715
Thomas Smith born at Derby.
1767
Thomas Smith died at Bristol.
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- 1.Smith, Thomas (d.1767). 53.
- 2.EB1911 wstitle=Smith, John Raphael inline=1 volume= 25 page= 267 .
- 3.Fraser, David. Smith, Thomas.
- 4.DerbyshireUK.net accessed 17 February 2008
- 5.Thomas Smith, Your Paintiungs, BBC, accessed September 2011
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