James David Smillie
James David Smillie | |
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 Portrait of Smillie, 1900 | |
| Born | January 16, 1833 New York, New York |
| Died | September 15, 1909 (aged 76) New York, New York |
| Occupation | Artist |
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Anna C. Cook (m. 1881) |
| Children | 2 |
| Father | James Smillie |
| Relatives | George Henry Smillie (brother), Helen Sheldon Jacobs Smillie (sister in-law) |
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James David Smillie (January 16, 1833 – September 15, 1909) was an American artist, cofounder of the American Watercolor Society and New York Etching Club. His brother was painter George Henry Smillie.
Biography
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James David Smillie was born in New York City on January 16, 1833, to parents Catherine (née Vans Valkenburgh) and Scottish-born artist James S. Smillie (1807–1885).[1][2] His brother, George Henry Smillie, was also a painter.[2]
His father, James Smillie (engraver), was a engraver, who emigrated from Scotland to New York in 1829.[2] His father was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1851, did much, with his uncle William Cumming (1813–1908), to develop the engraving of bank-notes, and was an excellent landscape-engraver.[3]
The son studied with him and in the National Academy of Design; engraved on steel vignettes for bank-notes and some illustrations, notably F. O. C. Darley's pictures for James Fenimore Cooper's novels; was elected an associate of the National Academy in 1865—the year after he first began painting—and an academician in 1876; and was a founder (1866) of the American Water Color Society, of which he was treasurer in 1866–73 and president in 1873–78, and of the New York Etching Club.[3]
He married Anna C. Cook in 1881.[1]
Among his paintings, in oils, are Evening among the Sierras (1876) and The Cliffs of Normandy (1885), and in water colour, A Scrub Race (1876) and The Passing Herd (1888). He wrote and illustrated the article on the Yosemite in Picturesque America.[3] A portrait of Smillie by Henry Augustus Loop is in the collection of the National Academy of Design, as is another by James Hamilton Shegogue.[4]
James David Smillie died on September 15, 1909, at his home in New York City.[5] He was survived by his two children.[5]
See also
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[edit]- ^ a b The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. X. J. T. White Company. 1900. pp. 367–368. Retrieved July 24, 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Smillie, James David". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 254.
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- ^ David Bernard Dearinger; National Academy of Design (U.S.) (2004). Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826–1925. Hudson Hills. pp. 20–. ISBN 978-1-55595-029-3.
- ^ a b "James David Smillie Dead". Brooklyn Eagle (Obituary). September 16, 1909. p. 20. Retrieved July 24, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Smillie, James David". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 254.
External links
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Media related to James David Smillie at Wikimedia Commons
- James D. Smillie Papers at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
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- American people of Scottish descent
- National Academy of Design alumni
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- 20th-century American male artists