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| name = John Smart | image = John Smart from NPG.jpg | imagesize = 200px | caption = John Smart circa 1795–1800 | birth_name = | birth_date = c. 1740 | birth_place = Norfolk, England | death_date = 1811 (aged 71) | death_place = London | nationality = English | field = Painter of Portrait Miniatures | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | inspired by = | influenced = | awards = }} John Smart (c. 1740–1811), was an English painter of portrait miniatures. He was a contemporary of Richard Cosway, George Engleheart, William Wood and Richard Crosse. BiographySmart was born in Norfolk, but not much is known of his early life. It is recorded that in 1755 he was runner up to Richard Cosway in a drawing competition for under-14s held by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. In the same year he began attending the new drawing school of William Shipley in London, along with Cosway and Richard Crosse. He exhibited at the Society of Artists, in London, from 1762 onwards; and became its president in 1778. He went to India in 1788 and obtained a number of commissions in that country. He settled down in London in 1797, and died there in 1811. He was a man of simple habits, and a member of the Society of Sandemanians. WorkSmart mainly painted watercolour miniatures on ivory, and often clearly signed and dated his work. A number of his preparatory drawings and sketches survive. His work is entirely different from that of Cosway, quiet and grey in its colouring, with the flesh tints elaborated with much subtlety and modelled in exquisite fashion. He possessed a great knowledge of anatomy, and his portraits are drawn with greater anatomical accuracy and possess more distinction than those of any miniature painter of his time. Many of his pencil drawings still exist in the possession of the descendants of a great friend of his only sister. Several of his miniatures are in Australia and belong to a cadet branch of the family. Smart taught portrait painting to Isabella Beetham,[1] who was one of Britain's finest silhouette artists in the 18th century.[2] Personal lifeSmart married Edith Vere, and is believed to have had only one son, who died in Madras in 1809. Examples of Smart's workReferences1. ^{{ cite journal|url=https://www.antiquesjournal.com/pages09/monthlypages/june09/ladies.html |title=Shady Ladies: Female Silhouette Artists of the 18th Century |author=Joy Ruskin Hanes |journal=New England Antiques Journal |location=Palmer, Massachusetts |accessdate=March 3, 2015 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704102910/http://www.antiquesjournal.com/pages09/monthlypages/june09/ladies.html |archivedate=July 4, 2009 |df= }} {{EB1911|wstitle=Smart, John|volume=25|page=250}}2. ^{{cite book|author=Ian Chilvers|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WYaRX58a0_IC&pg=PA653|date=10 June 2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-860476-1|pages=652–653}} Further reading{{DNB poster|Smart, John}}{{commons category}}
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