Roundel with a coastal scene, 1831 or later

Samuel Smith (fl. 1800 - fl. 1840)

RA Collection: Art

A monochrome watercolour roundel showing a coastal scene with the sea on the left and a landscape with buildings on the right. Samuel Smith was a porcelain painter who worked for the company of Flight, Barr and Barr in Worcester and the colour, style and shape of this drawing suggest that it was intended as a design for porcelain. 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.