George Henry Smillie (December 29, 1840SMILLIE, George Henry
in '' Who's Who in America'' (1901-02 edition); via

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–1921) was an American painter and etcher. The brother of artist James David Smillie, he studied under his father, James Smillie, and under

James McDougal Hart James McDougal Hart (May 10, 1828 – October 24, 1901), was a Scottish-born American landscape and cattle painter of the Hudson River School. Family and education Hart was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, and was taken to America with hi ...

, and became a member of the

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in 1882. Like his brother, he painted both in oils and in water colour. His favourite subjects were scenes along the

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coast. In 1881 he married Nellie Sheldon Jacobs (b. 1854), a painter of genre pictures in oils and water colour. File:River Landscape with Mountain View by George Henry Smillie.jpg, ''River Landscape with Mountain View'' File:Tremezzo, Lake Como MET ap1970.234.2.jpg, ''Tremezzo, Lake Como'' (1898) File:George Henry Smillie - Working on the Thames River - 78.40 - Indianapolis Museum of Art.jpg, ''Working on the Thames River'' (1884)

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