Smibert, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...rt, 1688 1751, American portrait painter, b. Scotland, the...heiress, became a successful portrait painter, and won considerable...standing. Among his works are portraits of Judge Edmund Quincy (Mus...Yale owns the first important portrait group painted in America...Entourage (1731), including a self-portrait. The artists influence...