JAMES

See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

DAVID

See also:

• JAMES DAVID SMILLIE (1833-1909)

SMILLIE (1833-1909)  , American artist, was born in New York City on the 16th of January 1833 . His father, James Smillie (1807-1885), a Scottish engraver, emigrated to New York in 1829, was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1851, did much, with his brother William Cumming (1813-1908), to develop the engraving of bank-notes, and was an excellent landscape-engraver . The son studied with him and in the National Academy of Design; engraved on steel vignettes for bank-notes and some illustrations, notably F . O . C . Darley's pictures for Cooper's novels; was elected an associate of the National Academy in 1865—the year after he first began painting —and an academician in 1876; and was a founder (1866) of the American Water Color Society, of which he was treasurer in 1866–1873 and president in 1873–1878, and of the New York Etching Club . Among his paintings, in oils, are " Evening among the Sierras " (1876) and " The Cliffs of Normandy " (1885), and in water colour, " A Scrub Race " (1876) and " The Passing Herd " (1888) . He wrote and illustrated the article on the Yosemite in Picturesque America . He died on the 14th of September 1909 . His brother,- GEORGE HENRY SMILLIE (184o– ), studied under his father and under James M . Hart, became a member of the National Academy of Design in 1882, and, like his brother, painted both in oils and in water colour . His favourite subjects were scenes along the New England coast .

In 1881 he married NELLIE

SHELDON JACOBS (b . L854), a painter of genre pictures in oils and water colour .