William Dudley

Smibert, John

1728-1751

1688-1751 Born in Edinburgh, John Smibert worked as a craftsman and copyist in London before traveling to Italy to develop his artistic skills. In 1729 he arrived in Boston to join the philosopher George Berkeley in establishing a university in Bermuda. When these plans dissolved, Smibert established a painting room, an artist’s supply shop, and a gallery that displayed his copies after important European paintings. Even after his death, his studio remained and nurtured American artists from Robert Feke, John Singleton Copley, and Charles Willson Peale to John Trumbull and Washington Allston. The artist’s second recorded composition made in Boston, this portrait of the widowed Catherine Page Brinley Lyde (1663–1755) is typical of his earliest American works.

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Categoría 1 Retrato

Categoría 2 Retrato masculino

Categoría 3 Europeos y criollos

Categoría 4 Laicos

Categoría 5 Retrato interior con escena exterior

Smibert’s arrival from London caused something of a sensation. Here was a painter who could provide sophisticated portraits in an up-to-date style; he was besieged with orders almost as soon as he arrived. Son of a governor of Massachusetts, William Dudle

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