A View of Windermeer

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

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.

Places

England, Lake District, Cumbria, Windermere

Subjects

topography, landscape C18th, tree, horse, cloud, lake, mountain, man, path, sailboat

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Thomas, (of Derby) Smith (c.1720 - 24-1767)

Title

A View of Windermeer

Date

published August 1767

Medium

Coloured engraving

Dimensions

height: 43.6 cm, width: 59.2 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, May 1964

GAC number

6486