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| | John Rowson Smith (1810-1864)
John Rowson Smith studied under his father, John Rubens Smith, whose pupils
later included Sanford Robinson Gifford. The elder Smith was primarily an
engraver and lithographer, but his son became a scenery painter, working after
1832 in Philadelphia, New Orleans, St. Louis, and other cities. About the
end of the 1830s, Smith took up panoramic painting, and his most successful
example, a panorama of the Mississippi River, was exhibited in both the United
States and Europe. He went to Europe in 1848 and afterward settled in New
Jersey, where he painted scenery for theaters in New York and the South. |