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Country of origin: Portugal
Medium: Oil on board
Signed: Signed lower left
Dated: c. 1930
Size: 18.00" x 15.00" (45.7cm x 38.1cm)
Framed Size: 26.00" x 23.00" (66.0cm x 58.4cm)
Provenance: Galerie Jean Claude Bellier - Paris
1902
Oil on panel
£2,450.00
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The Artist’s Garden
by Marie Duhem
1909
Oil on panel
£3,300.00
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The Artists Garden
by Henri Duhem
c. 1910
Oil on canvas
£23,000.00
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Provencher’s Mill – Moret-Sur-Loing
by Pierre Eugene Montezin
1947
Oil on canvas
£5,850.00
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La Plage a Soorts-Hossegor
by Maurice Brianchon
1910
Oil on board
£11,200.00
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Fillette à la poussette
by Victor Charreton
1881
Oil on canvas
£79,500.00
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Le peintre en plein air
by Charles Theophile Angrand
1940
Oil on canvas
£6,950.00
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Route a Mougins
by Jules Cavailles
c. 1880
Oil on canvas
£6,200.00
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Fishing on a stream by the coast – Normandy
by Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet
1915
Oil on panel
£2,650.00
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The Great War – Soldier & horse on a road
by Andre Devambez
1937
Oil on original canvas
£9,950.00
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The Old Farmyard – Sørup
by Peder Mork Monsted
1903
Oil on canvas
£22,500.00
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Pont D’Austerlitz
by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tarkhoff
1909
Oil on panel
£3,750.00
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Figures in a village
by Henri Duhem
Painter (gouache), draughtsman, watercolourist. Genre scenes, still-lifes, landscapes, waterscapes, urban landscapes.
Francis Smith was a pupil of J. Ribeiro the Younger, Luciano Freire and Constantino Fernandes in Lisbon, then of Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian in Paris. Although he lived in Paris, he retained his Portuguese nationality and made many visits to his native country.
He featured in many collective exhibitions including: Free Art, Lisbon (1911, 1934); Exposition Universelle, Paris (1937); Portugal in the work of Francis Smith, Portuguese Cultural Centre, Gulbenkian Foundation, Paris (1969); drawings, Casa de Portugal, Paris (1972). He also participated in the Salon d'Automne, Salon des Tuileries and Salon des Peintres Témoins de leur Temps (Salon for Contemporary Painters), in Paris. A Francis Smith Prize has been created in his memory.
He painted the shores of the Mediterranean where he spent so much time, and scenes portraying the joy of life itself in is own naive style. His native Portugal played an important role in his work.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Lisbon (MM)
Lisbon (Mus. do Chiado)
Paris (Mus. des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie)
Paris (Mus. du Petit Palais)