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George Smith, the printseller

Also known as: George Smith, the printseller; primary name: Smith, George; other name: Smith, W & G; other name: W & G Smith
Details: individual; dealer/auction house; British; Male
Life dates: -1878
Address: 21 Russell Square
Biography: Art dealer; brother and business partner of William Smith (qv) between 1835 and 1848/9, when the firm was closed; catalogue entries relating to the firm W & G Smith are separately indexed. After his retirement from business he acted in his own name. The main part of his collection was sold at Sotheby's 4-12.iii.1861; the catalogue calls him a 'distinguished amateur', and the preface describes how the prints were collected "as the basis for a more extended Cabinet" covering the history of printmaking. In 1876 he presented the collection of engraved portraits of eminent persons connected with the fine arts that had been formed by his brother and father (1876,1209.1 to 617). His posthumous sale was held at Sotheby's on 11/12 December 1878.

964 related objects

drawing

Museum number: 1868,1212.340.+ |
Producer name: BIOG31688 Drawn by:William Hodges |
Production date: 1744-1797

drawing

Museum number: 1868,1212.616 |
Producer name: Drawn by:George Perfect HardingAfter:Sir William Beechey |
Production date: 1801-1853

drawing

Museum number: 1876,1209.184 |
Producer name: BIOG20872 Drawn by:G M Brighty |
Production date: 1816

drawing

Museum number: 1876,1209.215 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1820s

drawing

Museum number: 1876,1209.535 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1820-1876

drawing

Museum number: 1868,1212.612 |
Producer name: BIOG148593 After:Philippe de Champaigne |
Production date: 18thC

drawing

Museum number: 1876,1209.455 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: mid 19th century

drawing

Museum number: 1868,1212.619 |
Producer name: BIOG35714 Drawn by:George Robert Lewis |
Production date: 1782-1871

drawing

Museum number: 1876,1209.472 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1800-1833

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1876,1209.382 |
Producer name: BIOG37409 Drawn by:Charles Martin |
Production date: 1844

drawing

Museum number: 1868,1212.613 |
Producer name: BIOG24690 Attributed to:Edward Dayes |
Production date: 1760-1804

drawing

Museum number: 1868,1212.620 |
Producer name: BIOG51712 Drawn by:John Masey Wright |
Production date: 1777-1866

drawing

Museum number: 1876,1209.310 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1800-1830

drawing

Museum number: 1868,1212.617 |
Producer name: Drawn by:George Perfect HardingAfter:Sir William Beechey |
Production date: 1801-1853

drawing

Museum number: 1861,0413.525 |
Producer name: Drawn by:George VertueAfter:Hans Holbein the Younger |
Production date: 1719-1756

drawing

Title: A game of draughts ended |
Museum number: 1861,0413.507 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Drawn by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1715-1735

drawing

Title: A game of draughts interrupted |
Museum number: 1861,0413.509 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Drawn by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1715-1735

drawing

Museum number: 1868,1212.618 |
Producer name: BIOG35714 Drawn by:George Robert Lewis |
Production date: 1782-1871

drawing

Museum number: 1876,1209.131 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1800-1876

drawing

Museum number: 1876,1209.557 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1819

drawing

Title: A waiter and a hungry customer |
Museum number: 1861,0413.506 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Drawn by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1715-1735

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1868,1212.614 |
Producer name: BIOG30609 Drawn by:George Perfect Harding |
Production date: 1801-1853

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1868,1212.615 |
Producer name: BIOG30609 Drawn by:George Perfect Harding |
Production date: 1801-1853

drawing

Title: Examining a watch |
Museum number: 1861,0413.508 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Drawn by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1715-1735

photographic print

Museum number: 1876,1209.444 |
Producer name: BIOG236166 Photographed by:S Ayling |
Production date: 19thC(middle)

print; trade-card

Museum number: 1876,1209.381 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1800

print; book-illustration

Title: John Flaxman |
Museum number: 1876,1209.207 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard Woodman IIAfter:John Jackson |
Production date: 1831

print

Title: The late Mr Robert Cribb |
Museum number: 1876,1209.150 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1827

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.276 |
Producer name: Print made by:William Thomas FryAfter:John Jackson |
Production date: 1823

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.100 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry MeyerAfter:Sir William Beechey |
Production date: 1810-1818

print

Title: The Great Seal of England |
Museum number: 1868,1212.647 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1790-1868

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.369 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1850

print

Title: Joseph Planta, Esq. F.R.S. The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits |
Museum number: 1876,1209.427 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles PicartAfter:Henry Edridge |
Production date: 1812

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.23 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Sigmund FaciusAfter:John Jackson |
Production date: 1790-1814

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.10 |
Producer name: BIOG27871 Print made by:Alfred Robert Freebairn |
Production date: 1849

print; book-illustration

Title: John Stafford Smith |
Museum number: 1876,1209.474 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas IllmanAfter:William Behnes |
Production date: 1820

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.462 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas Lord BusbyAfter:William Foster |
Production date: 1804-1812

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.328 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry Richard CookAfter:George Engleheart |
Production date: 1800-1830

print; book-illustration

Title: James Northcote Esq. R.A. in his 82nd Year |
Museum number: 1876,1209.394 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas WrightAfter:Abraham Wivell I |
Production date: 1828-1831

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.586 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1800-1850

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.460 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry RobinsonAfter:Sir William Charles Ross |
Production date: 1830-1851

print

Title: Robert Harry Inglis Portraits of Members of Grillion's Club from 1813 |
Museum number: 1876,1209.302 |
Producer name: After:Joseph SlaterPrint made by:Frederick Christian Lewis |
Production date: 1813-1864

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The late Mrs. Jameson |
Museum number: 1876,1209.308 |
Producer name: Block cut by:Thomas Dewell ScottAfter:Kilburn |
Production date: 1860

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The late Mr. Herbert Ingram, M.P. for Boston. |
Museum number: 1876,1209.305 |
Producer name: Print made by:Frederick James SmythIntermediary draughtsman:Thomas Dewell Scott |
Production date: 1860

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1876,1209.386 |
Producer name: Block cut by:Butterworth & HeathIntermediary draughtsman:Julian Portch |
Production date: 1800

print

Title: John Wall Calcott, Mus. Doc. |
Museum number: 1876,1209.103 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1854-1858

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1876,1209.17 |
Producer name: Print made by:Horace HarralAfter:Robert Howlett |
Production date: 1858

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Catherine Hutton |
Museum number: 1876,1209.294 |
Producer name: BIOG43221 Print made by:W Read |
Production date: 1824

print

Title: H Wellesley Portraits of Members of Grillion's Club from 1813 |
Museum number: 1876,1209.559 |
Producer name: After:Joseph SlaterPrint made by:Frederick Christian Lewis |
Production date: 1830-1858

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, D.C.L., F.R.S., President of the Royal Academy |
Museum number: 1876,1209.185 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas Harrington WilsonAfter:John & Charles Watkins |
Production date: 1860

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: J. C. Horsley, A.R.A. |
Museum number: 1876,1209.286 |
Producer name: Print made by:Horace HarralAfter:Robert Howlett |
Production date: 1860

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: William Mulready, R. A. |
Museum number: 1876,1209.384 |
Producer name: Print made by:Horace HarralAfter:Robert Howlett |
Production date: 1858

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Late Frank Stone, Esq, A.R.A. |
Museum number: 1876,1209.500 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas Harrington WilsonAfter:John Jabez Edwin Mayall |
Production date: 1859

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: New Associates of the Royal Academy |
Museum number: 1876,1209.16 |
Producer name: Print made by:William MurdenAfter:John & Charles Watkins |
Production date: 1861

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Thomas Webster, R. A. |
Museum number: 1876,1209.558 |
Producer name: Print made by:Horace HarralAfter:Robert Howlett |
Production date: 1858

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Late Mr. Disraeli |
Museum number: 1876,1209.170 |
Producer name: Print made by:Walter George MasonAfter:Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay |
Production date: 1848

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: E. L. [sic] Ward, Esq., R.A. |
Museum number: 1876,1209.552 |
Producer name: BIOG43590 After:George Richmond |
Production date: 1859-1876

print

Museum number: 1861,0413.487 |
Producer name: BIOG141569 Print made by:Monogrammist BR & anchor |
Production date: 1480-1490

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.193 |
Producer name: Print made by:Robert GravesAfter:George Sharples |
Production date: 1826

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.448 |
Producer name: BIOG26210 Print made by:William Camden Edwards |
Production date: early 19th century

print

Museum number: 1861,0413.498 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jeremias FalckAfter:David Beck |
Production date: 1652

print

Museum number: 1861,0413.494 |
Producer name: Print made by:Lambert Antoine ClaessensAfter:Gerard Dou |
Production date: 1790-1820

print

Museum number: 1861,0413.523 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jonas SuyderhoefPublished by:Pieter Goos |
Production date: 1633-1686

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.376 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard H DyerAfter:Cantelowe W Bestland |
Production date: 1829

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.383 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Henry RobinsonAfter:Paul Mulready |
Production date: 1845

print

Museum number: 1861,0413.486 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hendrik BaryAfter:Jan de Bisschop |
Production date: 1655-1707

print

Museum number: 1868,1212.460 |
Producer name: After:Peter Paul RubensPrint made by:Lucas Vorsterman I |
Production date: 1610-1650

print

Title: Sir Thomas Lawrence |
Museum number: 1876,1209.339 |
Producer name: Print made by:William Henry WorthingtonAfter:Sir Thomas Lawrence |
Production date: 1830

print

Title: A Collector |
Museum number: 1876,1209.541 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas BraggAfter:William Behnes |
Production date: 1818

print

Museum number: 1861,0413.514 |
Producer name: BIOG23915 Print made by:Frans Crabbe |
Production date: 1520-1530

print

Museum number: 1861,0413.521 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jonas SuyderhoefAfter:Frans Hals |
Production date: 1639

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1876,1209.596 |
Producer name: Print made by:Edward FindenAfter:Henry Hall Pickersgill |
Production date: 1833

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1876,1209.605 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1840-1860

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.595 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1827

print; frontispiece

Title: Huber |
Museum number: 1868,1212.518 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pierre Alexandre TardieuPrint made by:Anton Graff |
Production date: 1799

print

Title: Dawson Turner |
Museum number: 1876,1209.530 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hannah Sarah BrightwenAfter:John Philip Davis |
Production date: 1816-1837

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.317 |
Producer name: BIOG18742 Print made by:Charles Baugniet |
Production date: 1839

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.537 |
Producer name: Print made by:G E MadeleyAfter:John Wood |
Production date: 1829-1858

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.489 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: early 19th century

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.159 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles BaugnietPrinted by:M & N Hanhart |
Production date: 1853

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.64 |
Producer name: BIOG20166 Print made by:Robert Trewick Bone |
Production date: 1820-1835

print

Title: Henry N F Woodburn |
Museum number: 1876,1209.576 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas F HodgkinsAfter:William Behnes |
Production date: 1810-1876

print

Title: James Heath |
Museum number: 1876,1209.271 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard James LaneAfter:Thomas George |
Production date: 1830s

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.544 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas BridgfordPublished by:M & N Hanhart |
Production date: 1827-1857

print

Title: Mr Robert Cocking |
Museum number: 1876,1209.138 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1837-1840

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.478 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1840-1850

print; satirical print

Title: Hair and ton or singularity and elegance. |
Museum number: 1876,1209.416 |
Producer name: BIOG37960 Published by:Thomas McLean |
Production date: 1832

print; satirical print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Panthéon Charivarique |
Museum number: 1876,1209.522 |
Producer name: BIOG131887 Printed by:Aubert & Cie |
Production date: 1840-1870 |
Production place: Printed in:Paris (France)Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: A Bedouin Arab |
Museum number: 1876,1209.335 |
Producer name: BIOG34721 Print made by:Richard James Lane |
Production date: 1816-1872

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.421 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles BaugnietPrinted by:M & N Hanhart |
Production date: 1846

print

Title: Sir William Beechey, R.A. |
Museum number: 1876,1209.46 |
Producer name: Print made by:William SkeltonPrinted by:Graf & Soret |
Production date: 1830-1840

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.252 |
Producer name: BIOG23626 Print made by:Henry Corbould |
Production date: 1836

print

Title: Markham Sherwill |
Museum number: 1876,1209.463 |
Producer name: BIOG30609 Print made by:George Perfect Harding |
Production date: 1820-1850

print

Title: William Seguier, Esqre. |
Museum number: 1876,1209.458 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hannah Sarah BrightwenAfter:Edward Hodges Baily |
Production date: 1837

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.332 |
Producer name: BIOG18742 Print made by:Charles Baugniet |
Production date: 1843

print

Title: Henry Crowe, M.A. |
Museum number: 1876,1209.154 |
Producer name: Print made by:Daniel MaclisePrinted by:Godefroy Engelmann I |
Production date: 1828

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