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James Smetham BIOGRAPHY
1821 Yorkshire - 1889. Known for: Painting.
James Smetham was born in Yorkshire into a middle-class Methodist family. He remained a devout Methodist throughout his life. He moved to London in 1843, marrying and settling in Stoke Newington in... Read full biography
James Smetham was born in Yorkshire into a middle-class Methodist family. He remained a devout Methodist throughout his life. He moved to London in 1843, marrying and settling in Stoke Newington in the 1850s. He was on close terms with many of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, notably Ruskin, whom he met... Read full biography
James Smetham was born in Yorkshire into a middle-class Methodist family. He remained a devout Methodist throughout his life. He moved to London in 1843, marrying and settling in Stoke Newington in the 1850s. He was on close terms with many of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, notably Ruskin, whom he met at the Working Men's College in 1854, and D.G. Rossetti, in whose studio he painted weekly from 1863 to 1868. Like Rossetti, he also excelled as a poet, and his Letters (1891) and Literary Works... Read full biography
James Smetham was born in Yorkshire into a middle-class Methodist family. He remained a devout Methodist throughout his life. He moved to London in 1843, marrying and settling in Stoke Newington in the 1850s. He was on close terms with many of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, notably Ruskin, whom he met at the Working Men's College in 1854, and D.G. Rossetti, in whose studio he painted weekly from 1863 to 1868. Like Rossetti, he also excelled as a poet, and his Letters (1891) and Literary Works (1893), were both published posthumously. Many of his paintings were religious in theme, others pastoral or Arcadian. His paintings showed the influence not only of his Pre-Raphaelite friends and mentors but that of an earlier generation of English... Read full biography
James Smetham was born in Yorkshire into a middle-class Methodist family. He remained a devout Methodist throughout his life. He moved to London in 1843, marrying and settling in Stoke Newington in the 1850s. He was on close terms with many of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, notably Ruskin, whom he met at the Working Men's College in 1854, and D.G. Rossetti, in whose studio he painted weekly from 1863 to 1868. Like Rossetti, he also excelled as a poet, and his Letters (1891) and Literary Works (1893), were both published posthumously. Many of his paintings were religious in theme, others pastoral or Arcadian. His paintings showed the influence not only of his Pre-Raphaelite friends and mentors but that of an earlier generation of English artists; Blake, Linnell, Constable and others. Although he exhibited a number of works at the R... Read full biography
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James Smetham was born in Yorkshire into a middle-class Methodist family. He remained a devout Methodist throughout his life. He moved to London in 1843, marrying and settling in Stoke Newington in the 1850s.
He was on close terms with many of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, notably Ruskin, whom he met at the Working Men's College in 1854, and D.G. Rossetti, in whose studio he painted weekly from 1863 to 1868. Like Rossetti, he also excelled as a poet, and his Letters (1891) and Literary Works (1893), were both published posthumously.
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