Charles Smith (artist)
Charles Smith (7 November 1749 – 19 December 1824) was a Scottish artist who worked initially as a painter of portraits but later also painted mythological and whimsical subjects.
History
Smith was born on 7 November 1749 in
In 1783, influenced by the experiences of
Smith was not alone in making this journey abroad, since portrait artists had been encouraged by the first governor-general,
Having left India in 1787, Mr Charles Smith is a little angry at the damnation of his farce and, considering the terms of contempt in which it has been spoken of by some of the public prints, he is "inclined to hope, that by publishing it, no further loss of reputation can be sustained". We are somewhat surprised that this "dramatic trifle" should have been visited so rudely, for it seems to us fraught with every requisite for receiving a tumultuous approbation: a Highlander talks broad Scotch, an Irishman makes plenty of bulls, and a city brewer's wife favours the audience with a specimen of the London dialect, all executed in the happiest style of extravagance and buffoonery.[10]
It is probable that Smith also earned money as a copyist of other artists: William Brummell, father of Beau Brummell, owned a copy of a Joshua Reynolds work that Reynolds himself could barely distinguish from the original.[11][a]
Smith returned to India, working there from 1800 to 1811.
He died at Leith on 19 December 1824.[1]
References
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b c d e O'Donoghue (2004)
- ^ Waterston & Shearer (2006)
- ^ De Almeida & Gilpin (2005), p. 73
- ^ a b Eaton (2006), pp. 98–101
- ^ Ghosh (2006), pp. 77–78
- ^ Martin (2003), p. 95
- ^ Tillotson (2012), pp. 211–212
- ^ Eaton (2006), p. 111
- ^ a b Nechtman (2010), p. 72
- ^ Analytical Review (1799), p. 515
- ^ Bryant (2003), p. 340
- ^ Quarterly Review (1866), p. 134
- ^ Head (1985), p. 552
Bibliography
- Analytical Review (1799), Analytical Review: Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan, vol. 28, J. Johnson
- Bryant, Julius (2003), Kenwood, Paintings in the Iveagh Bequest, Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300102062
- De Almeida, Hermione; Gilpin, George H. (2005), Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India, Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 9780754636816
- Eaton, Natasha (2006), "Between mimesis and alterity: Art gift and diplomacy in colonial India", in Franklin, Michael J. (ed.), Romantic Representations of British India, Routledge, ISBN 9781134183098
- Ghosh, Durba (2006), Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521857048
- Head, Raymond (November 1985), "Corelli in Calcutta: Colonial Music-Making in India during the 17th and 18th Centuries", Early Music, 13 (4): 548–553, JSTOR 3127232(subscription required)
- Martin, Claude (2003), Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie (ed.), A Man of the Enlightenment in Eighteenth-century India: The Letters of Claude Martin, 1766-1800, Orient Blackswan, ISBN 9788178240428
- Nechtman, Tillman W. (2010), Nabobs: Empire and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521763530
- O'Donoghue, F. M. (2004). "Smith, Charles (1749–1824)". In Retford, Kate (ed.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. required.)
- Quarterly Review (1866), The Quarterly Review, vol. 120, John Murray
- Tillotson, G. H. R. (2012), The Artificial Empire: The Indian Landscapes of William Hodges, Routledge, ISBN 9781136755309
- Waterston, Charles D.; Shearer, A. Macmillan (2006), Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index (PDF), vol. II, Edinburgh: ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5, archived from the original(PDF) on 4 October 2006, retrieved 15 March 2014
External links
Charles Smith in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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