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John Raphael Smith
English Painter, 1752-1812,English printmaker, publisher and painter. The youngest son of the landscape artist Thomas Smith of Derby (d Bristol, 12 Sept 1767), he was apprenticed to a linen draper at the age of ten and around 1767 became a linen draper's assistant in London. He seems to have taught himself to paint miniatures and produced his first mezzotint in 1769, from Henry Benbridge's portrait of General Pascal Paoli (San Francisco, CA Pal. Legion of Honor). Smith married and opened a draper's shop in Exeter Exchange; about 1773 he began to engrave professionally and sold prints from the same shop.

 

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John Raphael Smith Sarah Siddons as Zara in Congreve-s The Mourning Bridg oil painting

Painting ID::  44578

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John Raphael Smith
Sarah Siddons as Zara in Congreve-s The Mourning Bridg
mk173 1783 Mezzotint 33.7x27.6cm
   
   
     

 

 

John Raphael Smith Portrait of George Morland oil painting

Painting ID::  81401

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John Raphael Smith
Portrait of George Morland
1792(1792) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 36.5 x 29.2 cm (14.4 x 11.5 in) cyf
   
   
     

 

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John Raphael Smith
English Painter, 1752-1812,English printmaker, publisher and painter. The youngest son of the landscape artist Thomas Smith of Derby (d Bristol, 12 Sept 1767), he was apprenticed to a linen draper at the age of ten and around 1767 became a linen draper's assistant in London. He seems to have taught himself to paint miniatures and produced his first mezzotint in 1769, from Henry Benbridge's portrait of General Pascal Paoli (San Francisco, CA Pal. Legion of Honor). Smith married and opened a draper's shop in Exeter Exchange; about 1773 he began to engrave professionally and sold prints from the same shop.