Another Bite
Oil Painting
ca. 1850 (painted)
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 | |
| Title | Another 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. |
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| 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 created | May 18, 2006 |
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