James Burrell Smith: On the Conway, North Wales, with a Man Fishing, c1850

James Burrell Smith (1822-1897) was a watercolour and landscape artist. He was born in London. In 1843 he moved to Alnwick, Northumberland where he trained with Thomas Miles Richardson.[1] He travelled around the UK and Europe. In the 1880s he created some engravings for The Illustrated London News.[2]

"...two charming waterfalls by J. Burrell Smith, who stands unrivalled as a limner of such picturesque pieces of nature", North British Daily Mail, 27 December 1877, p4 in a piece on a fine art sale at Robert McTear & Co.[3]

He died at 1a, Mornington Avenue, West Kensington on 16 December 1897.[4]

Family

James Burrell Smith was baptised in Stepney on 12 April 1829. His parents are listed as James, a revenue officer, and Sarah.[5] He married Eleanor Laidler at Edlingham, Northumberland on 24 April 1850.[6]

In the 1871 census, he was living at 13, Scarsdale Villas, Kensington, aged 47, occupation Landscape Painter and birthplace, Stepney, Middlesex.[7]

His second daughter, Sarah Emma Burrell Smith (1854-1943), known as Cissie, was also a landscape watercolour artist.[8]

References

  1. ↑ The Wallington Gallery - James Burrell Smith (1822- 1897)
  2. ↑ ‘James Burrell Smith’ historical pictures, Look and Learn Picture Archive.
  3. ↑ British Newspapers at findmypast. Subscription required.
  4. ↑ Morning Post, 24 December 1897, p1
  5. ↑ London, Docklands And East End Baptisms, at findmypast, subscription required.
  6. ↑ England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973, Ancestry, Library Edition.
  7. ↑ 1871 England, Wales & Scotland Census, RG10, Piece number 31, Folio 28; Page 50, at findmypast, subscription required.
  8. ↑ Clodgy Point St Ives Watercolour C Burrell Smith, Antiques Atlas
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