Samuel Smith, Roundel with a view of a rocky landscape, 1831 or after.
Monochrome (greenish-black) watercolour on cream wove paper. 143 cm x 145 cm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Samuel Smith (fl. 1800 - fl. 1840)
RA Collection: Art
A monochrome watercolour roundel showing a landscape view as seen through the opening of a rocky cave. The subject matter, style, colouring and shape of this drawing suggest that it was intended as a design to be transferred onto porcelain. 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.
143 cm x 145 cm