Description: Stunning strong water engraving representing: "the artist (himself?) seducer" . Epoque XIX, 1881Pair James David SMILLIE (1833-1909) Overall dimensions 28 x 21cm.Good condition, on vellum.THIS IS INDEED AN OVER 140 YEAR OLD PRINT. James David Smillie (January 16, 1833 – September 15, 1909) was an American artist. Biography Gay Head, Martha's VineyardJames David Smillie was born in New York City on January 16, 1833.[1] His father, James Smillie (1807–1885), a Scottish engraver, emigrated to New York in 1829, was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1851, did much, with his brother William Cumming (1813–1908), to develop the engraving of bank-notes, and was an excellent landscape-engraver. The son studied with him and in the National Academy of Design; engraved on steel vignettes for bank-notes and some illustrations, notably F. O. C. Darley's pictures for James Fenimore Cooper's novels; was elected an associate of the National Academy in 1865—the year after he first began painting—and an academician in 1876; and was a founder (1866) of the American Water Color Society, of which he–73 and president in 1866.78 He married Anna C. Cook in 1881.[1] Among his paintings, in oils, are Evening among the Sierras (1876) and The Cliffs of Normandy (1885), and in water colour, A Scrub Race (1876) and The Passing Herd (1888). He wrote and illustrated the article on the Yosemite in Picturesque America. A portrait of Smillie by Henry Augustus Loop is in the collection of the National Academy of Design, as is another by James Hamilton Shegogue.[2] His brother, George Henry Smillie, was also a painter. James David Smillie died at his home in New York on September 15, 1909.[3]
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Period: 19th and before
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