View of Chichester Cathedral (Duke of Richmond & Groom in the foreground)

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Hospitality, Lancaster House

George Smith of Chichester, a prolific painter of landscapes, was born in Chichester to a man who combined the trades of baker and cooper with the calling of a Baptist minister. His brothers, William and John, were also landscape painters; George often collaborated on works with his brother John. George Smith exhibited at the Society of Arts in London during the 1760s and early 1770s (he won prizes there in 1760, 1761 and 1763) and at the Royal Academy. His paintings were popular and many of them found a wider audience through the medium of engraving. Before he specialised in landscape painting, Smith painted still lifes; and in addition to practising as an artist, he was also a poet and a musician.

Places

England, Chichester, Chichester Cathedral, Sussex, West Sussex

Subjects

groom, topography, landscape C18th, genre, tree, man, Duke, perspective, hedgerow, cathedral, spire

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

George, (of Chichester) Smith (1713/14 - 1776)

Title

View of Chichester Cathedral (Duke of Richmond & Groom in the foreground)

Date

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 76.00 cm, width: 62.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the Piccadilly Gallery, March 1957

Inscription

Sbl

GAC number

3722