Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Preview image of work. oil on panel, Landscape 228

1852.2

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Artist

John Rubens Smith (1775 - 1849)

Title

Landscape

Creation Date

1847

Century

19th century

Dimensions

19 3/4 in. x 24 in. (50.17 cm x 60.96 cm)

Object Type

painting

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

oil on panel

Credit Line

Gift of Colonel George W. Boyd, Class of 1810

Copyright

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Accession Number

1852.2

One of the earliest landscape painters in the United States, John Rubens Smith was the son of a British mezzotint engraver. Trained in his father’s studio and at the Royal Academy, Smith emigrated from London to Boston in 1806. Though remembered as an irascible man, he was a successful educator and advocate for the arts who founded a drawing school first in Boston and later in New York and published several art manuals. His students included Emanuel Leutze and Sanford Gifford. This romantic landscape of an unidentified place was one of twenty-five paintings presented to the College in 1852 by Colonel George W. Boyd, Class of 1810, an important early supporter of the arts at Bowdoin.

Keywords: landscape (representation)