James Burrell Smith (died 16 December 1897) was a watercolour and landscape artist. He was born in London. In 1843 he moved to Alnwick, Northumberland where he trained with Thomas Miles Richardson. [1] He travelled around the UK and Europe. During the 1880s, he created some engravings for The Illustrated London News . [2] [3]
James Burrell Smith was baptised in Stepney on 12 April 1829. His parents are listed as James, a revenue officer, and Sarah. [4] He married Eleanor Laidler at Edlingham, Northumberland on 24 April 1850. [5] In the 1871 census, he was living at 13, Scarsdale Villas, Kensington, aged 47, occupation Landscape Painter and birthplace, Stepney, Middlesex. [6]
His second daughter, Sarah Emma Burrell Smith (1854-1943), known as "Cissie", was also a landscape watercolour artist. [7]
James Burrell Smith died at 1a, Mornington Avenue, West Kensington on 16 December 1897. [8]
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