Wednesday, March 18, 2009

James Smetham


[Pandora]
oil on canvas
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1821-1889.
Smetham worked in a number of genres: landscapes, portraits, and literary and religious themes. He began his studies at the Royal Academy in 1843, but mental illness that fully manifested itself in the mid-1870s plagued his later career, and after 1869 he no longer exhibited at the Royal Academy.

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