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See also:SMART, See also:JOHN (c. 1740–1811) , See also:English See also:miniature painter, was See also:born in See also:Norfolk; he became a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Cosway, and is frequently alluded to in his See also:correspondence. This artist was director and See also:vice-See also:president of the Incorporated Society of Artists, and exhibited with that society. He went to See also:India in 1788 and obtained a number of commissions in that See also:country. He settled down in See also:London in 1797 and there died. He married Edith See also:Vere, and is believed to have had only one son, who died in See also:Madras in ,8oq. He was a little See also:man, of See also:simple habits, and a member of the Society of Sandemanians. Many of his See also:pencil drawings still exist in the See also:possession of the descendants of a See also:great friend of his only See also:sister. Several of his miniatures are in See also:Australia and belong to a See also:cadet See also:branch of the See also:family. His See also:work is entirely different to that of Cosway, quiet and See also:grey in its colouring, with the flesh tints elaborated with much subtlety and modelled in exquisite See also:fashion. He possessed a great knowledge of See also:anatomy, and his portraits are See also:drawn with greater anatomical accuracy and possess more distinction than those of any miniature painter of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time.
See The See also:History of Portrait Miniatures, by G. C. See also:Williamson, vol. ii. (London, 1904). (G. C.
End of Article: SMART, JOHN (c. 1740–1811)
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