• Name: Smith, John
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 26  July  1749
• Death Date: 22  March  1831
• Occupation: artist

Smith worked as a drawing-master before benefiting from the patronage of George Greville, second earl of Warwick, who sent him to Italy in the 1770s for five years. On his return he worked for a variety of other nobles and became highly regarded as a colourist. He was a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours and served as its president on a number of occasions.

The identification can be confirmed by the entry for 30 May 1798: 'Smith's , w. Chandler (see Welch views)'. The DNB notes John Smith's interest in painting Wales. He took frequent trips and his work was published in William Sotheby's A tour through parts of Wales, sonnets, odes and other poems, with engravings from drawings taken on the spot (1794) .

• DNB.

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