Location

Country: St. Helena
City: Jamestown
Place: Governor's Office

Printmaker and publisher John Raphael Smith is best known for his mezzotints. He was born in Derby and apprenticed to a linen draper. He began his artistic career painting miniatures and engraved his first mezzotint in 1769. In 1784 he became Mezzotint Engraver to the Prince of Wales. Smith produced thousands of prints during his career, which he distributed throughout the UK and to St Petersburg, Milan and Paris. However, after the French Revolution caused a decline in exports, he opened the Morland Gallery in King Street, Covent Garden, initially producing 36 prints after works by George Morland. Smith spent his final years travelling throughout Yorkshire, in response to commissions for pastel portraits. He died in Doncaster, aged c.61.

Places

England, Kent

Subjects

bathing machine, topography, seascape/coastal scene, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, horse, man, woman, girl, bucket, pier, house, ship

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

Thomas Sutherland (1785 - 1838)
John Raphael Smith (1752 - 1812)

Title

Margate. Inner view of the Pier, Bathing Rooms, &c Taken from the Shipwrights

Date

1805

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, February 1958

GAC number

4542