John Smart, was an English painter of portrait miniatures.
11 Facts About John Smart
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John Smart was a contemporary of Richard Cosway, George Engleheart, William Wood and Richard Crosse.
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John Smart exhibited at the Society of Artists, in London, from 1762 onwards; and became its president in 1778.
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John Smart went to India in 1788 and obtained a number of commissions in that country.
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John Smart settled down in London in 1797, latterly in Fitzroy Street, and died there in 1811.
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John Smart was a man of simple habits and a member of the Society of Sandemanians.
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John Smart mainly painted watercolour miniatures on ivory, and often clearly signed and dated his work.
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John Smart's work is entirely different from that of Cosway, quiet and grey in its colouring, with the flesh tints elaborated with much subtlety and modelled in exquisite fashion.
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John Smart possessed a great knowledge of anatomy, and his portraits are drawn with greater anatomical accuracy and possess more distinction than those of any miniature painter of his time.
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John Smart taught portrait painting to Isabella Beetham, who was one of Britain's finest silhouette artists in the 18th century.
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John Smart married Edith Vere, and is believed to have had only one son, who died in Madras in 1809.