Coastal scene, by ca. 1840

Samuel Smith (fl. 1800 - fl. 1840)

RA Collection: Art

A watercolour of a coastal scene showing three figures on the left under an awning and two figures on the right in a small boat. In the background, across the water, is a church and another building with a cliff behind.

Samuel Smith was a porcelain painter who worked for the company of Flight, Barr and Barr in Worcester. John Homes Smith and his son John Halphead Smith who collected these drawings also worked as porcelain painters and it is almost certain that they knew, or were perhaps related to, Samuel Smith.