13-424: Robert Smirke may refer to: Robert Smirke (painter) (1753–1845), English painter Robert Smirke (architect) (1780–1867), his son, English architect [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
26-598: A member of the Incorporated Society of Artists , with which he began to exhibit by sending five works; he showed works there again in 1777 and 1778. In 1786 he exhibited Narcissus and The Lady and Sabrina ( a subject from Milton's Comus ) at the Royal Academy; these were followed by many works, usually small in size, illustrative of the English poets, especially James Thomson . In 1791 Smirke
39-648: A series of satirical " Catalogues Raisonnés ", which savagely lampooned the great and the good of British art patronage. Of his sons, Richard Smirke (1778–1815), was a notable antiquarian artist. Robert and Sydney both became notable architects and were both elected members of the Royal Academy. His fourth son, Edward was a noted lawyer and antiquary. There is a portrait of Smirke by John Jackson taken from an original picture by Mary Smirke , engraved by Charles Picart . Sir William John Newton painted several miniatures of him. Smirke died at 3 Osnaburgh Terrace, Regent's Park, London , on 5 January 1845, aged 92, and
52-585: The Amulet of 1830, is typical. The Rivals was engraved by William Finden for the Keepsake of 1828; The Secret , by James Mitchell for the same annual in 1830; and The Love Letter was engraved by Alfred W. Warren for the Gem of 1830. Smirke painted also some pictures for John Boydell 's Shakespeare Gallery and for Bowyer's History of England . These works included Katharine and Petruchio , Juliet and
65-609: The Nurse , Prince Henry and Falstaff , and The Seven Ages . A large commemorative plate, with fifteen medallion portraits, of The Victory of the Nile was engraved by John Landseer from his design. In the Guildhall Art Gallery was a picture by him representing Conjugal Affection, or Industry and Prudence , and a series of scenes from Don Quixote . Mary Smirke Mary Smirke (22 June 1779 – 14 September 1853)
78-483: The appointment on account of his revolutionary political opinions, and the appointment went instead to Henry Fuseli . In 1815 the British Institution upset many British artists by a preface to the catalogue of their exhibition of Old Masters, The Catalogues Raisonnés , implying rather too strongly that British artists had a lot to learn from them. Smirke is generally accepted as the author in 1815–16 of
91-415: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Smirke&oldid=951004567 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Robert Smirke (painter) Robert Smirke RA (15 April 1753 – 5 January 1845)
104-513: Was an English artist and translator. Smirke was one of the eight children born to the painter and illustrator Robert Smirke and his wife Elizabeth, who died in 1825. Their other children included the architects Sir Robert Smirke and Sydney Smirke , the draughtsman Richard Smirke and the lawyer and archaeologist Sir Edward Smirke . Mary Smirke attended school in Rickmansworth and received her artistic training from her father. She
117-585: Was an English painter and illustrator , specialising in small paintings showing subjects taken from literature. He was a member of the Royal Academy . Smirke was born at Wigton near Carlisle , the son of a travelling artist. When he was twelve he was apprenticed to a heraldic painter in London , and at the age of twenty began to study at the Royal Academy Schools . In 1775 he became
130-706: Was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery . Smirke's pictures were usually of small size and painted in monochrome, and so adapted for engraving . He designed illustrations for the Bible, The Picturesque Beauties of Shakespeare (1783), Johnson's Rasselas (1805), Gil Blas (1809), the Arabian Nights (1811), Adventures of Hunchback (1814), Don Quixote , (translated by his daughter, Mary Smirke, 1818), and various British poets, especially James Thomson . The Pedagogue , engraved by Joseph Goodyear for
143-448: Was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, in which year he exhibited "The Widow". He became a full academician in 1793, when he painted as his diploma work Don Quixote and Sancho . His last contribution to the academy, entitled Infancy , appeared in 1813, but he continued to exhibit occasionally elsewhere until 1834. In 1804 he was nominated to succeed Joseph Wilton as keeper to the Royal Academy, but George III refused to sanction
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#1732765077632156-493: Was employed as a painter and copyist by Nathaniel Dance-Holland and Sir Thomas Lawrence and in due course became a well-regarded landscape painter. Between 1809 and 1814 she exhibited six paintings at the Royal Academy in London. These paintings included View of Arundel Castle and Cottege near Blackheath . Smirke was also a translator and in 1818 her English translation of Don Quixote , with illustrations by her father,
169-532: Was published. She published two volumes of poetry, in 1843 and 1853, as Illustrated Translations from the German which she also illustrated with pen and ink drawings. Smirke's portrait of her father is held by the Royal Academy in London. The portrait was copied and engraved by John Jackson and Charles Picart and examples of that engraving are held by the National Portrait Gallery while both
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