A group of four shells, by ca. 1840

Samuel Smith (fl. 1800 - fl. 1840)

RA Collection: Art

A watercolour of a group of shells with one large conch shell in the centre and three smaller shells around it. This drawing, along with the others on the same mount, is almost certainly related to Smith's work as a porcelain painter for the company of Flight, Barr and Barr in Worcester. John Homes Smith and his son John Halphead Smith who collected these drawings, also worked as porcelain painters and they probably knew, or were perhaps related to, Samuel Smith.