John Smibert Bishop Berkeley and his Family Painting ID:: 4490 John Smibert1.jpg
Bishop Berkeley and his Family 1729
Yale University Art Gallery
John Smibert Portrait of a Woman Painting ID:: 68817 new23/John Smibert-573827.jpg
Portrait of a Woman Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 90.3 X 70.4 cm
John Smibert Portrait of a Woman Painting ID:: 70668 new23/John Smibert-735774.jpg
Portrait of a Woman Medium Oil on canvas
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John Smibert Reverend Joseph Sewall Painting ID:: 72916 new24/John Smibert-663488.jpg
Reverend Joseph Sewall "Reverend Joseph Sewall (1688-1769)," oil on canvas, by the Scottish-born artist John Smibert. 29 7/8 in. x 24 3/4 in. Bequest of Ruby P. Woolsey. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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John Smibert The Bermuda Group Painting ID:: 72917 new24/John Smibert-439873.jpg
The Bermuda Group "The Bermuda Group (Dean Berkeley and His Entourage)," oil on canvas, by the Scottish-born artist John Smibert. 69 1/2 in. x 93 in. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Gift of Isaac Lothrop.
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John Smibert Edward Winslow Painting ID:: 72918 new24/John Smibert-667885.jpg
Edward Winslow "Edward Winslow (1699-1753)," oil on canvas, by the Scottish-born artist John Smibert. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Mabel Brady Garvan Collection.
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John Smibert Reverend Joseph Sewall Painting ID:: 74733 new24/John Smibert-368874.jpg
Reverend Joseph Sewall English: "Reverend Joseph Sewall (1688-1769)," oil on canvas, by the Scottish-born artist John Smibert. 29 7/8 in. x 24 3/4 in. Bequest of Ruby P. Woolsey. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date circa 1735
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John Smibert Bermuda Group Painting ID:: 74734 new24/John Smibert-996374.jpg
Bermuda Group English: "The Bermuda Group (Dean Berkeley and His Entourage)," oil on canvas, by the Scottish-born artist John Smibert. 69 1/2 in. x 93 in. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Gift of Isaac Lothrop.
Date begun 1728; completed 1739
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John Smibert Edward Winslow Painting ID:: 74735 new24/John Smibert-737394.jpg
Edward Winslow "Edward Winslow (1699-1753)," oil on canvas, by the Scottish-born artist John Smibert. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Mabel Brady Garvan Collection.
Date c. 1730-1731
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John Smibert Portrait of George Berkeley Painting ID:: 78958 new24/John Smibert-594595.jpg
Portrait of George Berkeley 1730(1730)
Oil on canvas
101.6 x 74.9 cm (40 x 29.5 in)
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John Smibert Self portrait Painting ID:: 81594 new24/John Smibert-487959.jpg
Self portrait Date from 1728(1728) until 1739(1739)
Medium Oil on canvas
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1688-1751
John Smibert Gallery
John Smybert (or Smibert) (1688 - 1751), Scottish American artist, was born in Edinburgh and died in Boston, Massachusetts.
He studied under Sir James Thornhill, and in 1728 accompanied Bishop Berkeley to America, with the intention of becoming professor of fine arts in the college which Berkeley was planning to found in Bermuda. The college, however, was never established, and Smybert settled in Boston, where he married in 1730.
In 1731 he painted "Dean George Berkeley and His Family," also called "The Bermuda group", now in the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, a group of eight figures; it is maintained that the person furthest to the left is actually the artist himself. He painted portraits of Jonathan Edwards and Judge Edmund Quincy (in the Boston Art Museum), Mrs Smybert, Peter Faneuil and Governor John Endecott (in the Massachusetts Historical Society), John Lovell (Memorial Hall, Harvard University), and probably one of Sir William Pepperrell; and examples of his works are owned by Harvard and Yale Universities, by Bowdoin College, by the Massachusetts Historical Society, and by the New England Historical and Genealogical Society.
Portrait of Edmund Quincy, attributed to John Smybert
Plaque at Granary Burying Ground in Boston commemorating SmybertBetween 1740-42, he served as architect for the original Faneuil Hall, which he designed in the style of an English country market. The hall burned down in 1761 but was restored, and then in 1806 greatly expanded and modified by Charles Bulfinch.
His son Nathaniel was also a painter. Smybert lies in an unmarked grave in the Granary Burying Ground in Boston.