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 as a present to the Czar. On his return to London he was patronized by the Earl of Bristol, and, having renewed his acquaintance with Bishop Berkeley, whom he had met in Italy, was engaged by him as professor 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, married Mary Williams, by whom he had several 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 uncertain. Portraits: Mrs. M. S. Alford (E. Winslow, Boston); R. Ball (H. H. Edes, Charlestown); Cardinal Bentivoglio, copy from Van Dyck, Harvard College; Mrs. F. Brinley 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), Harvard College; Governor Endicott, Peter Faneuil, Rev. J. and Mrs. Gee, Massachusetts Historical Society; Judge I. Gerrish (Miss S. D. Barrett, Boston); S. and Mrs. Greenleaf (R. E. Apthorp, 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 Museum, Boston, and the other in Quincy family); J. Sewell (Salisbury family, Boston); Chief-Justice Sewell (Messrs. Ridgway, Boston); Mrs. J. Smibert, artist's wife, Massachusetts Historical Society; W. Tyler, New England Historical and Genealogical Society; Captain Th. and Mrs. Shippard (1750); Patrick (1760) and Mrs. Tracy (1754), Colonel H. Lee, Boston.—Bishop Berkeley's Works, iv. 189; W. H. Whitmore, Notes concerning Peter Pelham (Cambridge, 1867), 17; A. T. Perkins, Sketches of Blackburn and Smibert, Proceedings of Mass. Hist. Soc., viii. 385.

SMIBERT, NATHANIEL, born in Boston, Jan. 20, 1734, died there, Nov. 8, 1756. Portrait painter, son and pupil of John Smibert. 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).—W. H. Whitmore, Notes concerning Peter Pelham, 17; Dunlap, i. 31; A. T. Perkins, Proceedings of Mass. Hist. Soc. (1878).

SMILLIE, GEORGE HENRY, born in New York, Dec. 29, 1840. Landscape painter, son of James Smillie the engraver, and pupil of James M. Hart. In 1871 sketched in the Rocky Mountains and Yosemite 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. Member of Society of American Artists. Studio in New York. Works in oil: Lake in the Woods (1872); Goat Pasture (1879); Florida Lagoon (1875); Merrimac River (1882); At Marblehead Neck—Mass. (Henry Irving), On the Massachusetts Coast (1883); Summer Morning on Long Island, Over the Hill to the Poor-House—Salisbury, Mass. (1884). Water-colours: Sentinel Rock—*