Samuel Smith, Mountainous landscape with figures in the foreground

Mountainous landscape with figures in the foreground, by ca. 1840

Samuel Smith (fl. 1800 - fl. 1840)

RA Collection: Art

A watercolour drawing of a mountainous landscape with figures walking in the foreground. Smith was a porcelain painter who worked for the company of Flight, Barr and Barr in Worcester. Smith's work as a porcelain painter for 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 it is almost certain that they knew, or were perhaps related to, Samuel Smith.

Object details

Title
Mountainous landscape with figures in the foreground
Artist/designer
Samuel Smith (fl. 1800 - fl. 1840)
Date
by ca. 1840
Object type
Drawing
Medium
Watercolour on cream wove paper
Dimensions

90 mm x 182 mm

Collection
Royal Academy of Arts
Object number
02/732
Acquisition
Bequeathed by Gilbert Bakewell Stretton 1949
return to start
back

Start exploring the RA Collection

read more
  • Explore art works, paint-smeared palettes, scribbled letters and more...
  • Artists and architects have run the RA for 250 years.
    Our Collection is a record of them.
Start exploring