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as a present to the Czar. On his return to London he was patronized by the Earl of Bristol, and, having renewed his acquaintance with Bishop Berkeley, whom he had met in Italy, was engaged by him as professor of fine arts in the projected college at Bermuda. He accordingly accompanied the Bishop and his party to America, and landed at Newport in January, 1729. Smibert then went to Boston, established himself as a portrait painter, and on July 30, 1730, married Mary Williams, by whom he had several children. After the collapse of the Bermuda project, when Bishop Berkeley went to Boston to sail for England in the autumn of 1731, Smibert painted him and his family. The picture was presented to Yale College in 1808. Copley is said to have been Smibert's pupil, but this is uncertain. Portraits: Mrs. M. S. Alford (E. Winslow, Boston); R. Ball (H. H. Edes, Charlestown); Cardinal Bentivoglio, copy from Van Dyck, Harvard College; Mrs. F. Brinley and child (1729-30), E. L. Brinley, Philadelphia; Th. Bulfinch (Mrs. T. Swett, Boston); Mr. and Mrs. Chandler (Mrs. F. Dexter, Boston); Benj. Codman (1734), Harvard College; Governor Endicott, Peter Faneuil, Rev. J. and Mrs. Gee, Massachusetts Historical Society; Judge I. Gerrish (Miss S. D. Barrett, Boston); S. and Mrs. Greenleaf (R. E. Apthorp, Boston); Two Children of Loring family, F. C. Loring, Boston; Hon. B. Lynde and wife (1738), Dr. F. E. Oliver, Boston; J. McSparran and wife, Mrs. Dr. Elton, Dorchester; Hon. D. and Mrs. Oliver, portraits of their three sons, David, Andrew, and Peter, and of Mrs. Andrews (Dr. F. E. Oliver, Boston); A. Pepperell (E. Winslow, Boston); Judge Ed. Quincy, two portraits (one in Art Museum, Boston, and the other in Quincy family); J. Sewell (Salisbury family, Boston); Chief-Justice Sewell (Messrs. Ridgway, Boston); Mrs. J. Smibert, artist's wife, Massachusetts Historical Society; W. Tyler, New England Historical and Genealogical Society; Captain Th. and Mrs. Shippard (1750); Patrick (1760) and Mrs. Tracy (1754), Colonel H. Lee, Boston.—Bishop Berkeley's Works, iv. 189; W. H. Whitmore, Notes concerning Peter Pelham (Cambridge, 1867), 17; A. T. Perkins, Sketches of Blackburn and Smibert, Proceedings of Mass. Hist. Soc., viii. 385.
SMIBERT, NATHANIEL, born in Boston,
Jan. 20, 1734, died there, Nov. 8, 1756.
Portrait painter, son and pupil of John Smibert.
Mentioned by Judge Cranch in a
letter to Dr. John Eliot as "one of the most
amiable youths I was ever acquainted with,"
to which he adds: "Had his life been
spared he would probably have been in his
day what Copley and West have since been,
the honour of America in imitative art."
Portraits: John Lovell, Harvard College;
Dorothy Wendell (Dr. J. L. Hale, Boston).—W.
H. Whitmore, Notes concerning Peter
Pelham, 17; Dunlap, i. 31; A. T.
Perkins, Proceedings of Mass. Hist. Soc.
(1878).
SMILLIE, GEORGE HENRY, born in
New York, Dec.
29, 1840. Landscape
painter,
son of James
Smillie the engraver,
and pupil
of James M.
Hart. In 1871
sketched in the
Rocky Mountains
and Yosemite
Valley;
visited Florida in 1874. First exhibited in
the National Academy in 1863; elected an
A.N.A. in 1864, and N.A. in 1882. Member
of Society of American Artists. Studio
in New York. Works in oil: Lake in the
Woods (1872); Goat Pasture (1879); Florida
Lagoon (1875); Merrimac River (1882);
At Marblehead Neck—Mass. (Henry Irving),
On the Massachusetts Coast (1883);
Summer Morning on Long Island, Over the
Hill to the Poor-House—Salisbury, Mass.
(1884). Water-colours: Sentinel Rock—*