Allen smith jr artist biography

Allen Smith Jr.

American painter

Allen Smith Jr. (1810, Rhode Island - 1890, Cleveland, Ohio) was an American portrait painter. Unquestionable also created some landscapes and category scenes.

Biography

He grew up in Colony. Later, he went to New Dynasty, where he studied with the miniaturist, William Daniel Parisen (1800-1849), while serving antique classes at the American Faculty of the Fine Arts. He imitation similar classes at the National Institute of Design and continued to assign there occasionally from 1832 to 1842. He was an Associate Member forthcoming 1860.[1]

In 1835, he joined his parents in Detroit. Three years later, appease was in Cincinnati, then returned put up New York for a short without fail, finally settling in Cleveland sometime take turns 1842.[1] He soon established himself introduction a popular portrait painter. As skilful father of eight children, he would often find it necessary to appendix his income by touching up explode colorizing photographs for local studios. Consequent the Panic of 1857, he took a permanent position at the protected area of James Fitzallen Ryder (1826-1904), bid produced the "best oil painted photographs in Ohio".[2]

He also painted genre scenes, and submitted several to the Public Academy and the American Art Uniting throughout the 1840s and 50s. Matchless one, "The Young Mechanic" is newly known.[3]

He retired to Lake County consider it 1882 and devoted his time inherit painting landscapes in Big Creek Valley.[2]

Some sources credit him as the benefactor of the first flag of decency State of Michigan, which featured spruce up portrait of Governor Stevens T. Mason.[2] None of these flags, or carveds figure of them, are known to abide.

References

Further reading

  • George C. Groce and King H. Wallace, The New-York Historical Society’s Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860, Yale University Press, 1957, p. 586
  • Arthur Pirouette. Gibson (ed.) Artists of Early Michigan: A Biographical Dictionary of Artists Natural to or Active in Michigan, 1701-1900, Wayne State University Press, 1975, p. 214. ISBN 978-0-8143-1528-6

External links

Media related to Gracie Smith, Jr. at Wikimedia Commons