All John Raphael Smith's oil paintings
ID Image  Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z     Other Information
81401 Portrait of George Morland Portrait of George Morland 1792(1792) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 36.5 x 29.2 cm (14.4 x 11.5 in) cyf
44578 Sarah Siddons as Zara in Congreve-s The Mourning Bridg Sarah Siddons as Zara in Congreve-s The Mourning Bridg mk173 1783 Mezzotint 33.7x27.6cm
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. . Related Artists to : | Giambattista Pittoni | charles de brosses | dahlstrom | Antoni Boys | Johann Baptist Reiter |