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Another Bite

Oil Painting
ca. 1850 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

George Smith (1829-1901) entered the Royal Academy in 1845 and worked in the studio of the genre and narrative painter Charles West Cope. Smith himself focused mainly on genre painting, often involving children as seen in this example of his work exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1850. Throughout his career he exhibited 79 works at the Royal Academy, 26 at the British Institute and 15 at the Society of British Artists.

Object details

Category
Object type
TitleAnother Bite (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Oil on panel
Brief description
Oil painting on panel by George Smith entitled 'Another Bite', depicting two children fishing. Great Britain, ca. 1850.
Physical description
A young boy wearing a long smock and a broad-brimmed hat sits on a river bank fishing. A young girl wearing an off-the-shoulders dress kneels beside him, her right arm resting on his left shoulder as she watches him fish. Water front left; trees in the distance.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 45.7cm
  • Estimate width: 55.9cm
  • Framed height: 61cm
  • Framed width: 71cm
  • Framed depth: 5cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Marks and inscriptions
GS 1850 (signed and dated)
Credit line
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Object history
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Subjects depicted
Summary
George Smith (1829-1901) entered the Royal Academy in 1845 and worked in the studio of the genre and narrative painter Charles West Cope. Smith himself focused mainly on genre painting, often involving children as seen in this example of his work exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1850. Throughout his career he exhibited 79 works at the Royal Academy, 26 at the British Institute and 15 at the Society of British Artists.
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 268
Collection
Accession number
FA.185[O]

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Record createdMay 18, 2006
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