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Painter and draughtsman, born in Kingsbridge, Devon. Studied at Plymouth School of Art, 1897–1900, at the Royal College of Art, 1900–01, then privately with Julius Olsson at St Ives, Cornwall, where Smart died. He was art critic for the Western Morning News for 10 years from 1903 and while in the Army in World War I drew on the Western Front. After the war settled in St Ives and began exhibiting regularly at the RA, RBA, ROI, Fine Art Society and elsewhere. One-man shows included Penwith Gallery, St Ives, 1949 and 1981, and City Art Gallery, Plymouth, 1950 and 1975. Borlase Smart was closely associated with the St Ives Society of Artists, and the Penwith Society of Arts was founded as a tribute to him in 1949. Although a traditional painter himself, Smart encouraged Peter Lanyon to start painting and some of the more radical artists to exhibit in St Ives.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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