Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
Smith, Francis Hopkinson |
Notes |
Self-taught artist, Francis Hopkinson Smith was born on October 23, 1838 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a naval engineer working on large scale projects as the base of the Statue of Liberty. In the 1880s he put engineering aside to focus on the arts and traveling extensively throughout Italy, Spain, France, Turkey and Mexico seeking inspiration. Smith was also a successful writer illustrrating several of his own books. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He wrote "Colonel Carter of Cartersville" in 1891, "Gondola Days" in 1897, "Venice To-Day" in 1896, "The Fortunes of Oliver Horn" in1902, and "In Dickens’s London" in 1914. Smith's work can be found in many prominent permanent collections such as the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA; Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. Smith passed away in 1915. |
Nationality |
American |
Occupation |
Naval engineer, painter and writer |
