28-1110: (Redirected from Joe Smith ) Joseph or Joe Smith may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Joseph Smith (art collector) (1682–1770), British art collector and consul at Venice Joseph A. Smith (artist) (born 1936), American artist and professor at the Pratt Institute Joseph Lindon Smith (1863–1950), American painter Joe Smith (comedian) (1884–1981), American comedian Joseph C. Smith (1883–1965), American violinist, composer and band leader Joseph Smith (dancer) (1875–1932), American dancer Joe Smith (musician) (1902–1937), American jazz trumpeter Joe Smith (music industry executive) (1928–2019), American music industry executive Sonny Knight or Joseph C. Smith (1934–1998), American R&B singer and author Pepe Smith or Joseph William Feliciano Smith (1947–2019), Filipino musician Joseph Smith (pianist) (1948–2015), American pianist, author, and lecturer Joe Smith, American ,
56-599: A 1942 American spy film Military [ edit ] Joseph Smith (East India Company officer) (1732/3–1790), British East India Company Army Brigadier General Joseph Smith (admiral) (1790–1877), American admiral during the American Civil War Joseph B. Smith (1826–1861), U.S. Navy officer Joseph Sewall Smith (1836–1919), Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient Politics [ edit ] Joseph Smith (Michigan politician) (1809–1880), American businessman and politician in
84-530: A facsimile of the rare edition of 1527 that only close examination tells them apart. A Catalogue Librorum Rarissimorum was in fact a partial catalogue of the outstanding rarities in Smith's own library; the first edition consisted of twenty-five copies. A second edition (1737) adds thirty-one titles. A general catalogue of his library was published in 1755. Smith's central role in the network of patronage of painters in eighteenth-century Venice, in which he created
112-624: A major draw on the British Grand Tour . His collection of drawings was bought for George III of Great Britain and forms a nucleus of the Royal Collection of drawings in the Print Room at Windsor Castle . Joseph Smith, a man of obscure origins, was educated at Westminster School before travelling to Venice. He took up residence there in 1700 in the import-export trade and merchant banking house of Thomas Williams,
140-514: A market in the taste for vedute , was as the prime facilitator of purchases made by the British aristocrats passing through on the Grand Tour . As the agent for Canaletto for several years (circa 1729–35), he virtually controlled the artist's output, to the benefit of both. It was Smith who arranged for Visentini to engrave thirty-eight of Canaletto's views in 1730, and Smith who encouraged
168-405: A more workaday level, there are numerous architectural drawings of sixteenth-century architecture at Venice and at Vicenza made in the studio of Antonio Visentini that are scaled in British feet and must have been intended for some British milordo . A generous selection of his manuscripts were purchased by Lord Sunderland for the library at Blenheim Palace , which was dispersed in turn during
196-413: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Joseph Smith (art collector) Joseph Smith (c. 1682 – Venice , 6 November 1770), often known as Consul Smith , was the British consul at Venice from 1744 to 1760. He was a patron of artists, most notably Canaletto , a collector and connoisseur, banker to the British community at Venice, and
224-594: Is now Washington County, Pennsylvania . There, he built a home and a log school called "The Study," where he taught. Smith was known as a "firery and eloquent speaker" and held days-long revivals on the high plateau at Upper Buffalo. He loved reading religious materials in the original language: The Old Testament in Hebrew , the New Testament in Greek , Edward Leigh 's Critica Sacra , and Pool's Synopsis . It
252-549: Is now known as Palazzo Smith Mangilli Valmarana . Smith's summer villa in the terraferma was at Mogliano Veneto ; it does not survive. Joseph Smith (Presbyterian minister, born 1736) Joseph Smith (1736–1792) was a prominent Presbyterian minister in Western Pennsylvania . He is one of the founders of Washington & Jefferson College . Smith was born in Cecil County, Maryland , not far from
280-1653: The Baltimore Colts of the All-America Football Conference Other sports [ edit ] Joe Smith (athlete) (1917–1993), American marathon runner Joseph Smith (bobsleigh) (1925–1983), American bobsledder Joseph Smith (cricketer) (born 1946), Jamaican-born former English cricketer Joe Smith (basketball) (born 1975), American basketball player Joe Troy Smith (born 1977), American basketball player Joe Smith Jr. (born 1989), American boxer Joe Smith (rugby union) (born 1991), South African rugby union player and powerlifter Other people [ edit ] Joseph Smith (explorer) (died 1764), British fur trader and explorer Joseph Lee Smith (1776–1846), American lawyer, soldier, and jurist Joe Frazer Smith (1897–1957), American architect and author Joseph Smith (aircraft designer) (1897–1956), English aircraft designer who took over from R.J. Mitchell as Chief Designer for Supermarine Joseph A. Smith Jr. (fl. 1974–present), professor of urology, editor-in-chief of Journal of Urology Joseph Saumarez Smith (born 1971), British entrepreneur, journalist and gambling expert Joseph Colin Smith (1931–2016), British urologist Joseph Victor Smith (1928-2007), British crystallographer and mineralogist See also [ edit ] Joel Smith (disambiguation) Joseph Smit , Dutch zoological illustrator Smith (surname) Smith family (Latter Day Saints) Topics referred to by
308-811: The British Library known as the "King's Library". Smith did not stop collecting; the dispersal of his second collection of books by auction in London took thirteen days in January–February 1773. Many of Smith's paintings also went to the British Royal Collection, through the mediation of James Smart Mackenzie, brother of Lord Bute . The collection is celebrated for its dazzling series of Venetian views by Canaletto , together with other Italian views by Canaletto and works by Sebastiano Ricci , Francesco Zuccarelli and Pietro Longhi . On
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#1732787123638336-556: The 1740s he asked Canaletto (whose agent he had been for many years) to paint the principal buildings by Palladio in Venice. A production of the Pasquali press was a facsimile of Andrea Palladio's Quattro libri dell'Architettura , as it had been printed in Venice, 1570, but presented as an eighteenth-century bibliophile felt it ought to have been printed in the first place, on fine paper with generous margins and engravings substituted for
364-456: The British consul at that time. Smith eventually headed the partnership of Williams and Smith and made a modest fortune. Smith's reputation was as a passionate collector of paintings and drawings – both of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century masters and of living artists – and of manuscripts and books, coins and medals, and engraved gems . Beside Canaletto, among the living painters whom he patronised were Francesco Zuccarelli , of Florence, and
392-692: The Church of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1942 to 1946 Sports [ edit ] Association football [ edit ] Joe Smith (footballer, born 1886) (1886–?), English footballer for Hull City, Everton and Bury Joseph Smith (footballer, born 1888) (1888–1928), English footballer with Sheffield United and Derby County Joe Smith (football forward, born 1889) (1889–1971), England international footballer with Bolton Wanderers and manager of Blackpool Joe Smith (football halfback, born 1889) (1889–1916), English footballer with Birmingham and Chesterfield, killed in action during
420-1146: The First World War Joe Smith (footballer, born 1890) (1890–1956), England international footballer with West Bromwich Albion Joe Smith (footballer, born 1908) (1908–1993), English footballer with Watford Joe Smith (winger) , English professional footballer with Burnley Joe Smith (footballer, born 1953) , Scottish footballer with Aberdeen Baseball [ edit ] Joe Smith (1910s pitcher) , American baseball player Joe Smith (catcher) (1893–1974), American baseball catcher Joe Smith (2010s pitcher) (born 1984), American baseball player Gridiron football [ edit ] Joe Smith (American football coach) (1873–1923), American football player and coach Joseph Smith (American football) (fl. 1989–present), American college football player and coach, head football coach at Linfield College Joe Smith (running back) (born 1979), American professional gridiron football player Joe Bob Smith , (1934–2011) American-born Canadian football player Joe H. Smith Jr. (1922–1978), American end for
448-745: The Latter Day Saint movement Joseph Smith (1805–1844), an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, which gave rise to Mormonism Joseph Smith III (1832–1914), Prophet-President of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Joseph F. Smith (1838–1918), nephew of Joseph Smith; sixth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Joseph Fielding Smith (1876–1972), son of Joseph F. Smith and tenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Joseph Fielding Smith (patriarch) (1899–1964), Patriarch to
476-469: The Michigan House of Representatives Joseph Crowther Smith (1818–1886), mayor of Wolverhampton, 1865–66 Joseph Showalter Smith (1824–1884), U.S. Representative from Oregon Joe L. Smith (1880–1962), American Democratic Party politician from West Virginia J. Joseph Smith (1904–1980), U.S. Representative from Connecticut Joseph Smith (Australian politician) (1904–1993), member of
504-626: The Missouri House of Representatives Religion [ edit ] Joseph Smith (academic) (1670–1756), English churchman and Provost of the Queen's College, Oxford Joseph Smith (Presbyterian minister, born 1796) (1796–?), Presbyterian minister, author, and academic Joseph Smith (Presbyterian minister, born 1736) (1736–1792), Presbyterian minister and founder of Washington & Jefferson College Joseph Smith Sr. (1771–1840), father of Joseph Smith, and first Presiding Patriarch in
532-479: The Venetian Giuseppe Zais . Smith's favoured architect for rebuilding the façade of his palazzo was Antonio Visentini . It was Smith's pleasure to issue lavishly-printed books in extremely limited editions, for which he had the services of Giovanni Battista Pasquali , whose press he bankrolled. A reproduction of Boccaccio 's Decamerone from the Pasquali press, guided by Smith, was so exact
560-555: The Victorian Parliament Joe F. Smith (1918–2013), American Democratic Party politician from West Virginia Joseph F. Smith (Pennsylvania politician) (1920–1999), United States Representative from Pennsylvania Joseph A. Smith (sheriff) (1911–2003), American politician; Sheriff of Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1962–1977 Joseph Henry Smith (1945-2023), Minister for Defence of Ghana Joe Smith (Missouri politician) (born c. 1973), Republican member of
588-456: The artist to make his successful trip to London in 1746. Smith himself was a passionate collector of contemporary Venetian paintings and drawings, as well as etchings and engravings . In 1768, he published a facsimile of the original edition of Andrea Palladio 's I quattro libri dell'architettura of 1570. In 1762, Smith sold the vast majority of his books, gems, coins, prints, drawings and paintings – including many works by Canaletto – to
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#1732787123638616-474: The first Italian-style opera heard in England, and Bononcini 's Trionfo di Camilla (1706). She arrived in Venice in 1711, and Smith immediately made her his wife. His appointment as British consul was gazetted on 24 March 1743, Old Style (1744 by modern dating), after which he was the "Consul Smith" whose name appears in every history of eighteenth-century British collecting and art patronage. He retained
644-634: The modern location of the Conowingo Dam . He graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University ) in 1764 at the relatively mature age of 28. He was "tall, blond, slender, and had piercing eyes" and was "emotional to a degree we do not usually associate with Englishmen." He was first licensed to preach by New Castle Presbytery and accepted a call in Brandywine, Pennsylvania . He and his family moved west to Cross Creek in what
672-482: The nineteenth century. At quite an advanced age, the widowed consul Smith, his wife having died in 1756, married a sister of John Murray, resident at Venice and afterwards British ambassador to Turkey . His grave was on the Lido , where Goethe , travelling in the late seventeen-eighties, stopped to pay respects: "to him I owe my copy of Palladio, and I offered up a grateful prayer". The palace that Smith owned in Venice
700-428: The original woodcuts . Further neo-Palladian structures in a veduta ideata fantasy setting commissioned by Consul Smith are the series of eleven paintings commissioned in 1746 from Francesco Zuccarelli and Antonio Visentini showing English Palladian structures in idealised fantasy settings. George III began to form his library by purchasing Smith's in virtually its entirety in 1765, for £10,000; it forms that part of
728-624: The post until the accession of George III in 1760. In expectation of his appointment Smith purchased outright the Palazzo Balbi on the Grand Canal , which he had heretofore been renting, on 20 April 1740. Soon thereafter he commissioned Antonio Visentini to redesign the façade in the Palladian style . Smith, who was in correspondence with the "architect earl", Lord Burlington , was as devoted to Palladio as any of his British visitors: in
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784-688: The young George III for £20,000. The books today form the nucleus of the King's Library, now transferred from the British Museum to the British Library , while the Royal Collection retains his other treasures. Smith's other passion was for music, which he indulged in part by marrying the noted but temperamental soprano Catherine Tofts (c.1685–1756). She had been the first true prima donna in London, who had introduced Italian opera in Thomas Clayton 's Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus (1705),
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