Frank Hill Smith
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Frank Hill Smith was an American artist and interior designer based in Boston, Massachusetts. He painted landscapes and figures; and designed wall frescos, stage curtains, stained-glass windows, and o
Frank Hill Smith
Sunflower House, Beacon Hill, where Smith lived c. 1864 (photo taken 2010)
St. Mark's, Venice, 1871 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
1876 Girl with bucket by Frank Hill Smith
Boston Athenæum
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The Boston Athenæum is one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States. It is a membership library, for which patrons pay a yearly subscription fee to use Athenæum services. The instituti
Frank Hill Smith
…Boston Smith trained with Hammatt Billings (c. 1859) and also studied at the Lowell Institute. As part of his training he "drew from the antique at the Athenaeum." He travelled in Europe in the 1860s, studying at "the atelier Suisse, in Paris, and ... with [Léon] Bonnat and other noted French painters" (1865…
The Boston Athenæum building today, as designed by Edward Clarke Cabot with additions by Henry Forbes Bigelow
The unfinished 1796 Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington, one of two portraits at the center of the controversy.
Boston Athenaeum, Beacon Street, c. 1855
Statuary gallery, 19th century