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Birth
1840 (New York City)
Death
1921 (Bronxville, New York)
Lived/Active
New York/California
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Hudson River style landscape painting, Indian genre, engraving
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Hudson River School Painters
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The son of a printmaker who engraved Hudson River School landscapes,
George Smillie became a painter of traditional 19th-century landscapes
in the Hudson River style.
He trained in engraving with his
father, James Smillie, and then was a painting pupil of James McDougal
Hart. From 1862 to 1900, he exhibited at the National Academy of
Design and was elected to membership in the Academy in 1882, and in
1892 became Secretary.
He spent most of his professional life in
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