Roundel with a landscape view, 1831 or later

Samuel Smith (fl. 1800 - fl. 1840)

RA Collection: Art

A monochrome watercolour roundel with a landscape view showing a cottage with a smoking chimney on the left and two small figures sitting on a bank on the right. The subject matter, style, colouring and shape of this drawing suggest that it was intended as a design to be transferred onto porcelain. Samuel Smith was a porcelain painter who worked 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 it is almost certain that they knew, or were perhaps related to, Samuel Smith.