Roundel with a landscape featuring a Gothic ruin, 1831 or after

Samuel Smith (fl. 1800 - fl. 1840)

RA Collection: Art

A monochrome watercolour roundel showing a picturesque landscape with a Gothic ruin in the background and a seated figure and his dog in the foreground. Samuel Smith was a porcelain painter who worked for the company of Flight, Barr and Barr in Worcester and the colour, style and shape of this drawing suggest that it was intended as a design for porcelain. 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.