English Painter, 1752-1812,English printmaker, publisher and painter. The youngest son of the landscape artist Thomas Smith of Derby (d Bristol, 12 Sept 1767), he was apprenticed to a linen draper at the age of ten and around 1767 became a linen draper's assistant in London. He seems to have taught himself to paint miniatures and produced his first mezzotint in 1769, from Henry Benbridge's portrait of General Pascal Paoli (San Francisco, CA Pal. Legion of Honor). Smith married and opened a draper's shop in Exeter Exchange; about 1773 he began to engrave professionally and sold prints from the same shop.   Related Paintings of John Raphael Smith :. | Portrat des Jakob Florisz van Montfort | Vertumnus and Pomona | The Peasant from the market | Arab or Arabic people and life. Orientalism oil paintings 578 | View of L Esperance on Schoharie River |
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