Painting of Mount Carbon, Pennsylvania, by John Rowson Smith engraved by his father
View of Pottsville, Pennsylvania

John Rowson Smith (1810 – 1864) was a panorama painter in the United States. His father was John Rubens Smith.[1] Several publications about him and his work were published.[2] He produced a successful three reel rendition of the Mississippi River.[3] It was also published in book form.[4]

He was born in Boston and grew up in Brooklyn before moving to Philadelphia.[5]

Smith was a pioneer in the creation of moving panoramas.[6] He was a rival of John Banvard.[7]

Artist Russell Smith considered him a great scamp and reportedly gave his own son a distinctive name so there would be no confusion between the two.[8]

He died on March 21, 1864, in Philadelphia and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery.

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References

  1. ↑ "John Rowson Smith (1810-1864) - White Mountain Art & Artists". Whitemountainart.com.
  2. ↑ "Smith, John Rowson 1810-1864". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  3. ↑ Black, Patti Carr (3 January 1998). Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781578060849 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Smith, John Rowson (3 January 2019). "Grande panorama Mississipi: viagem pitoresca e artistica por este rio, desde a cascata de Santo Antonio até ao Golfo do Mexico" – via Hathi Trust.
  5. ↑ Art, Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American (3 January 1999). 150 Years of Philadelphia Painters and Paintings: Selections from the Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art. The Library Company of Phil. ISBN 9781893287013 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ Huhtamo, Erkki (22 February 2013). Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262313100 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ Collins, Paul (3 January 2019). Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck. Macmillan. ISBN 9780312268862 – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ "Schwarz Gallery - Catalog 75 - New Jersery Remembered: Seventy-fifth Anniversary Exhibition". Schwarzgallery.com.
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