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SMITH-LEWIS (1879) ; Steamboat Wharf in Norway, Win- ter Evening in Norway (1880) ; Winter Morning on Coast of Norway (1881); Moon- Rise, Return from Mass (1882) ; Morning in Cornwall, Unrest (1883); The Old Net (1884), Luxembourg Museum ; Morning at the Christiania Fjord (1884) ; Sunset near Trondhjem, Calm in a Fjord (1885); Bau- daksvanclet Lake, Norway (1886). SMITH-LEWIS, JOHN, born at Burling- ton, Vt. ; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil in Paris of Ernest Hubert. Mention honourable, Paris Salon, 1886. Work: Gath- ering Varech in a Storm (1886). SMITHS OF CHICHESTER. See Smith, George. SMITS, EUGENE, born in Antwerp in 1826. History and landscape painter, pupil of Brussels Academy and of Triqueti in Paris. Visited Italy in 1861-64, also Ger- many and Holland. Medals, Brussels, 1866 ; Order of Leopold, 1870 ; Officer, 1881 ; Order of Francis Joseph of Austria. Studio in Brussels. Works: Roma, King of Bel- gium ; Seasons, Brussels Museum ; Santa Trinita de' Monti ; Neptune Festival ; Mir- ror ; Roman Garden ; Diana ; Convales- cence ; Souvenir of Naples. Mailer, 325. SMOUT, LUCAS, the younger, born at Antwerp, baptized Feb. 27, 1671, died there April 6, 1713. Flemish school; marine painter, son of Lucas Smout, the elder (his- tory painter, 1620-74), and pupil of Hendrik van Minderhout. Works : Coast View with Country House and Figures, do. with Ro- man Monuments, Cattle and Figures, Schwe- rin Gallery ; Naval Battle in Kjoge Bay, 1710, Hofrath C. Rost, Dessau. Schlie, 587; Van den Branden, 1056 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, vi. 347 ; xvii. 62. SNAKE CHARMER (Le charmeur de serpents), Mariano Fortuny, A. T. Stewart Collection, New York ; canvas, H. 1 ft. 6 in. x 4 ft. An Arab, with shoulders and legs bare, is lying flat on a rug spread on the ground, holding in his left hand a rod and intently watching a serpent crawling towards him ; behind him, another Arab, seated, holding a musical instrument in his lap; at left, a stork standing over the serpent. Painted in 1870. Same subject, Edouard Andre, Paris. Etched by Boilvin. Gaz. des B. Arts (1875), xi. 278. SNAKE IN THE GRASS, Sir Joshua Rey- nolds, National Gallery, London ; canvas, H. 4 ft 1 in. x 3 ft 3 in. A girl seated on a Snake in the Grass, Sir Joshua Reynolds, National Gallery, London. bank is sporting with Cupid, who has seized both ends of her girdle and is untying it ; in the grass by her side, the head of a snake ; in background, n red curtain. Exhibited at Royal Academy, 1785, under title of Venus. Painted for Lord Carysfort, who paid 200 guineas for it. Subsequently called Love unloosing the Zone of Beauty, and later, Snake in the Grass, the snake possibly being intended as an emblem of Cupid. Purchased with the Peel pictures in 1871. Duplicate in Soane Museum, London ; an- other in Baron Rothschild's Collection ; a third in Hermitage, St. Petersburg, called Venus and Cupid. Engraved by J. R. Smith (1787) ; S. W. Reynolds ; H. Robin- son. Cat Nat. Gal.; Leslie & Taylor, iL IDS