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SMIBERT as a present to the Czar. On his return to London he was patronized by the Earl of Bristol, and, having renewed his acquaint- ance with Bishop Berkeley, whom he had met in Italy, was engaged by him as pro- fessor 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, mar- ried Mary Williams, by whom he had sev- eral 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 un- certain. Portraits : Mrs. M. S. Alford (E. Winslow, Boston); R. Ball (H. H. Edes, Charlestown) ; Cardinal Bentivoglio, copy from Van Dyck, Harvard College ; Mrs. F. Briuley 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), Har- vard College ; Governor Endicott, Peter Faueuil, Rev. J. and Mrs. Gee, Massachu- setts Historical Society ; Judge I. Gerrish (Miss S. D. Barrett, Boston) ; S. and Mrs. Greenleaf (R. E. Ap thorp, 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 Mu- seum, Boston, and the other in Quincy family); J. Sewell (Salisbury family, Bos- ton); Chief-Justice Sewell (Messrs. Ridg- way, Boston) ; Mrs. J. Smibert, artist's wife, Massachusetts Historical Society ; W. Ty- ler, New England Historical and Genealog- ical Society ; Captain Th. and Mrs. Ship- pard (1750); Patrick (17GO) and Mrs. Tracy (1754), Colonel H. Lee, Boston. Bishop Berkeley's Works, iv. 189; W. H. Whit- more, Notes concerning Peter Pelham (Cam- bridge, 1867), 17 ; A. T. Perkins, Sketches of Blackburn and Smibert, Proceedings of Mass. Hist. Soc., viii. 385. SMIBERT, NATHANIEL, born in Bos- ton, Jan. 20, 1734, died there, Nov. 8, 1756. Portrait painter, son and pupil of John Smi- bert. 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). AV. H. Whitmore, Notes concerning Pe- ter Pelham, 17 ; Duulap, i. 31 ; A. T. Perkins, Proceedings of Mass. Hist. Soc. (1878). SMTLLIE, GEORGE HENRY, born in New York, Dec. 29, 1840. Land- scape painter, son of James Smillie the en- graver, and pu- pil of James M. Hart. In 1871 sketched in the Rocky Moun- tains and Yo- semite 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. Mem- ber of Society of American Artists. Studio in New York. Works in oil : Lake in the Woods (1872) ; Goat Pasture (1879) ; Flor- ida Lagoon (1875) ; Merrimac River (1882) ; At Marblehead Neck Mass. (Henry Ir- ving), On the Massachusetts Coast (1883); Summer Morning on Long Island, Over the Hill to the Poor-House Salisbury, Mass. (1884). Water-colours : Sentinel Rock 198