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ROBERT SMIRKE (1752-1845)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 254 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:SMIRKE (1752-1845)  , See also:English painter, was See also:born at Wigton near See also:Carlisle in 1752 . In his thirteenth See also:year he was apprenticed in See also:London with an heraldic painter, and at the See also:age of twenty he began to study in the See also:schools of the Royal See also:Academy, to whose See also:exhibition he contributed in 1786 a "See also:Narcissus" and a " Sabrina,'.' which were followed by many See also:works, usually small in See also:size, illustrative of the English poets, especially See also:Thomson . In 1791 See also:Smirke was elected an See also:associate of the Royal Academy, and two years later a full member . In 1814 he was nominatedkeeper to the Academy, but the See also:king refused to See also:sanction the See also:appointment on See also:account of the artist's revolutionary opinions . He was engaged upon the See also:Shakespeare See also:gallery, for which he painted " Katharina and Petruchio," " See also:Prince See also:Henry and Falstaff " and other subjects . He also executed many See also:clever and popular See also:book-illustrations . His works, which are frequently humorous, are pleasing and graceful, accomplished in draughtsmanship and handled with considerable spirit . He died in London on the 5th of See also:January 1845 .

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