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He went on to a distinguished career as an art teacher himself, which included 14 years at the Chelsea School of Art, from where he retired as a senior lecturer in 1979, and a swan-song as a much-revered teacher of etching at the Camden Arts Centre (he had been elected to the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1951).
Smith sold well in Japan, where he painted all the major harbours. He was official artist to the British Antarctic Survey, 1975–6, with a second voyage in 1979–80. In 1982–4 he was invited by Trinity House to record the lighthouses of England and Wales.
John Michael Wright (1617–1694) – British baroque portrait painter; Peter Lely (1618–1680) – Dutch painter and portrait artist in England; Francis Barlow (c.1626–1704) – English painter, etcher, and illustrator; David Loggan (1635–1692) – English baroque painter, born in Danzig; Godfrey Kneller (1646/9–1723) – portrait ...
1. David Smith was a British artist who was born in 1920. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo have featured David Smith's work in the past. David Smith's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 50 USD to 2,646 USD, depending on the size and medium of the ...
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His work soon caught the attention of national collectors, and for the last forty-eight years, David Smith has solidified his position as a top landscape painter. He now ranks among Britain’s most famous artists.
"Captain John Smith's Route through Turkey and Russia," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., XIV (July 1957), 358-369, and prefatory essay by Laura Polanyi Striker in the new edition of Henry Wharton's The Life of John Smith, English Soldier (Chapel Hill, 1957), pp. I-3I.
British landscape artist David Smith was born in Thundersley, Benfleet, Essex, in 1949 to a modest family. He was strongly influenced by the artistic talents of his paternal grandfather, a larger-than-life character. David’s grandfather earned a living in his youth as a bare fist pugilist. He also sailed the world on ocean-going liners as a printer, producing menus and other shipboard ...
