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Robert Smirke - One from Illustrations to Shakespeare

One from Illustrations to Shakespeare

Robert Smirke (English, 1752 - 1845)
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Robert Smirke

Robert Smirke RA was an English painter and illustrator, specialising in small paintings showing subjects taken from literature. He was a member of the Royal Academy.

Smirke was born at Wigton near Carlisle, the son of a travelling artist. When he was twelve he was apprenticed to a heraldic painter in London, and at the age of twenty began to study at the Royal Academy Schools.

In 1775 he became a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, with which he began to exhibit by sending five works; he showed works there again in 1777 and 1778. In 1786 he exhibited Narcissus and The Lady and Sabrina ( a subject from Milton's Comus) at the Royal Academy; these were followed by many works, usually small in size, illustrative of the English poets, especially James Thomson.

In 1791 Smirke was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, in which year he exhibited "The Widow". He became a full academician in 1793, when he painted as his diploma work Don Quixote and Sancho. His last contribution to the academy, entitled Infancy, appeared in 1813, but he continued to exhibit occasionally elsewhere until 1834.

In 1804 he was nominated to succeed Joseph Wilton as keeper to the Royal Academy, but George III refused to sanction the appointment on account of his revolutionary political opinions, and the appointment went instead to Henry Fuseli.

In 1815 the British Institution upset many British artists by a preface to the catalogue of their exhibition of Old Masters, The Catalogues Raisonnés, implying rather too strongly that British artists had a lot to learn from them. Smirke is generally accepted as the author in 1815–16 of a series of satirical "Catalogues Raisonnés", which savagely lampooned the great and the good of British art patronage. Of his sons, Richard Smirke (1778–1815), was a notable antiquarian artist. Robert and Sydney both became notable architects and were both elected members of the Royal Academy. His fourth son, Edward was a noted lawyer and antiquary. There is a portrait of Smirke by John Jackson taken from an original picture by Mary Smirke, engraved by Charles Picart. Sir William John Newton painted several miniatures of him.

Smirke died at 3 Osnaburgh Terrace, Regent's Park, London, on 5 January 1845, aged 92, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

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Falstaff at Herne’s Oak

Falstaff at Herne’s Oak (1807)

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The Rape of the Golden Fleece

The Rape of the Golden Fleece

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Study of a Woman, Imploring for the Return of Her Captive Child

Study of a Woman, Imploring for the Return of Her Captive Child

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One from Illustrations to Shakespeare

One from Illustrations to Shakespeare

Robert Smirke (English, 1752 - 1845)
Skech for Timon of Athens

Skech for Timon of Athens

Robert Smirke (English, 1752 - 1845)
Wooded Scene with a Couple Laying under a Tree, by a Stream

Wooded Scene with a Couple Laying under a Tree, by a Stream

Robert Smirke (English, 1752 - 1845)
Lady Jane Grey

Lady Jane Grey

Robert Smirke (English, 1752 - 1845)
Man Seated while Speaking to a Soldier Who is Standing

Man Seated while Speaking to a Soldier Who is Standing

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MSS Bible Regia

MSS Bible Regia

Robert Smirke (English, 1752 - 1845)
Oberon and Puck

Oberon and Puck

Robert Smirke (English, 1752 - 1845)
Scene from Don Quixote

Scene from Don Quixote

Robert Smirke (English, 1752 - 1845)
Lysander declaring his passion to Helena

Lysander declaring his passion to Helena (1820-1825)

Robert Smirke (English, 1752 - 1845)
figure Studies for Medieval Noble Life

figure Studies for Medieval Noble Life

Robert Smirke (English, 1752 - 1845)
One from Illustrations to Shakespeare

One from Illustrations to Shakespeare

Robert Smirke (English, 1752 - 1845)
Bust of Shakespeare

Bust of Shakespeare (1825)

Robert Smirke (English, 1752 - 1845)
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