John Smith (1703–1787)

Image credit: The Henry Barber Trust, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham

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John Smith is shown seated against a window with a snuff box in his left hand. He was a successful merchant who had some interest in the arts. He would have been seventy-nine when he sat for this portrait which was inherited a few years later by his eldest son. George Romney originally came from Lancashire and was one of the leading British portrait painters of the late eighteenth century. He is best known today for his portraits of Emma Hamilton who became his muse.

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Birmingham

Title

John Smith (1703–1787)

Date

1782

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 127 x W 101.6 cm

Accession number

52.4

Acquisition method

purchased, 1952

Work type

Painting

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