Thomas Smith (died 12 September 1767), also known as Thomas Smith of Derby, was a landscape painter and father of

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and miniaturist painter Thomas Corregio Smith. Smith painted many landscapes including historic houses like Chatsworth and views of the Lake District. With George Perry he designed views of

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, which were engraved by François Vivares. These are among the earliest industrial landscapes. Smith's 1751 painting "An Extensive Landscape with Hunting Party" was sold for over $67,000 at an auction at Sotheby's. He painted the picture in 1751, a year before his son was born and sixteen years before his death. There are several of his paintings and those of his son in Derby Art Gallery and examples too in British institutions like Bradford Museum and Galleries and in the

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.Thomas Smith
Your Paintiungs, BBC, accessed September 2011

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) 1767 deaths 18th-century English painters English male painters English landscape painters People from Derby Year of birth unknown 18th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub