James David Smillie

James David Smillie (January 16, 1833 – September 15, 1909) was an American artist.

James David Smillie
Born	(1833-01-16)January 16, 1833 New York, New York
Died	September 15, 1909(1909-09-15) (aged 76) New York, New York
Occupation	Artist
Spouse(s)	Anna C. Cook ( m. 1881)
Relatives	George Henry Smillie (brother)

Biography

Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard

James David Smillie was born in New York City on January 16, 1833.[1]

His father, James Smillie (1807–1885), a Scottish engraver, emigrated to New York in 1829, was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1851, did much, with his brother William Cumming (1813–1908), to develop the engraving of bank-notes, and was an excellent landscape-engraver.

The son studied with him and in the National Academy of Design; engraved on steel vignettes for bank-notes and some illustrations, notably F. O. C. Darley's pictures for James Fenimore Cooper's novels; was elected an associate of the National Academy in 1865—the year after he first began painting—and an academician in 1876; and was a founder (1866) of the American Water Color Society, of which he was treasurer in 1866–73 and president in 1873–78, and of the New York Etching Club.

He married Anna C. Cook in 1881.[1]

Among his paintings, in oils, are Evening among the Sierras (1876) and The Cliffs of Normandy (1885), and in water colour, A Scrub Race (1876) and The Passing Herd (1888). He wrote and illustrated the article on the Yosemite in Picturesque America. A portrait of Smillie by Henry Augustus Loop is in the collection of the National Academy of Design, as is another by James Hamilton Shegogue.[2]

His brother, George Henry Smillie, was also a painter.

James David Smillie died at his home in New York on September 15, 1909.[3]

References

1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. X. J. T. White Company. 1900. pp. 367–368. Retrieved July 24, 2020 – via Google Books.
2. David Bernard Dearinger; National Academy of Design (U.S.) (2004). Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826–1925. Hudson Hills. pp. 20–. ISBN 978-1-55595-029-3.
3. "James David Smillie Dead". Brooklyn Eagle. September 16, 1909. p. 20. Retrieved July 24, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Smillie, James David". Encyclopædia Britannica. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 254.