19.50inch wide
13.00inch high
(49.53 cm wide 33.02 cm high)
External Dimensions
25.75inch framed width
19.25inch framed height
(65.40 cm framed width 48.89 cm framed height)
Literature
J66506
FEEDING THE HENS
GEORGE J. SMITH
1829 –1901 Signed & dated 1866
Oil on canvas 13 x 19 ½ inches
Framed size 19 ¼ x 25 ¾ inches
George Smith was a genre painter and a pupil at the Royal Academy Schools and under C.W. Cope.
He went on to paint domestic scenes, often of children in the manner of Thomas Webster and F.D. Hardy. He exhibited his work, 19 at the Royal Society of Artists Birmingham; 8 at the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool; 8 at Manchester City Art Gallery; 14 at the Royal Academy;
1 at the Royal Society of British Artists; 15 at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour; 8 at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters; 1 at Arthur Tooth & Sons Gallery.
It is recorded that George Smith lived at Shotter Mill, Haslemere, Surrey in 1880 and London in 1883.
Works in Museums: Victoria & Albert Museum;
Nottingham Art Gallery; Rochdale Art Gallery
Bibl: Victorian Painters – Christopher Wood
British Artists 1880 –1940
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