Roundel showing a tropical landscape, 1831 or after

Samuel Smith (fl. 1800 - fl. 1840)

RA Collection: Art

A monochrome watercolour roundel showing a tropical landscape with two figures, one crouching and one standing. The latter wears a turban. The style, subject matter, colouring and shapeof this drawing suggest that it was intended as a design for porcelain.Samuel Smith was a Worcester porcelain painter who worked for the Flight and Barr company and possibly others. 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..