A View of Derwentwater etc. from Crow-Park
Thomas, (of Derby) Smith (c.1720 - 24-1767)
Coloured engraving
published 1767-
About the work
- Location
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Country: Finland
City: Helsinki
Place: British Embassy
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About the artist
Thomas Smith of Derby was a topographical and picturesque landscape painter who lived in Bridgegate, Derby. He exhibited at the Society of Artists and the Free Society of Artists from 1760 to 1767. Several examples of his work include groups of elegant tourists admiring views of country estates. He took his art sufficiently seriously to name both his sons after great painters, calling them Thomas Correggio Smith and John Raphael Smith (who continued the tradition by naming his son John Rubens Smith). Both of his sons naturally became artists, as did his daughter, Emma. Smith died on 5 September 1767 in Hotwells, a district of Bristol.
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Explore
- Places
- England, Lake District, Cumbria
- Subjects
- rowing boat, topography, landscape C18th, tree, cow, lake, mountain, man
- Materials & Techniques
- engraving, coloured engraving
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Details
- Title
- A View of Derwentwater etc. from Crow-Park
- Date
- published 1767
- Medium
- Coloured engraving
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Frank T Sabin, May 1964
- GAC number
- 6487