original James D Smillie "old cedars coast of maine" original etching c. 1880

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origional  hand done art  etching  by James D Smillie   title is "old cedars coast of maine" and is a good strong impression and very clean. Great image  c. 1880 part of a group  recently discovered and never exposed to light.
James David Smillie was born in
New York City
on January 16, 1833.
[1]
His father, James Smillie (1807–1885)
, a Scottish engraver, emigrated to New York in 1829, was elected to the
National Academy of Design
in 1851, did much, with his brother William Cumming (1813–1908), to develop the engraving of bank-notes, and was an excellent landscape-engraver.
The son studied with him and in the National Academy of Design; engraved on steel vignettes for bank-notes and some illustrations, notably
F. O. C. Darley
's pictures for
James Fenimore Cooper
's novels; was elected an associate of the National Academy in 1865—the year after he first began painting—and an academician in 1876; and was a founder (1866) of the
American Water Color Society
, of which he was treasurer in 1866–73 and president in 1873–78, and of the
New York Etching Club
.
He married Anna C. Cook in 1881.
[1]
Among his paintings, in oils, are
Evening among the Sierras
(1876) and
The Cliffs of Normandy
(1885), and in water colour,
A Scrub Race
(1876) and
The Passing Herd
(1888). He wrote and illustrated the article on the
Yosemite
in
Picturesque America
. A portrait of Smillie by
Henry Augustus Loop
is in the collection of the
National Academy of Design
, as is another by
James Hamilton Shegogue
.
[2]
His brother,
George Henry Smillie
, was also a painter.
James David Smillie died at his home in New York on September 15, 1909.
[3]
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