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Birth
1839 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Death
1929 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Lived/Active
Pennsylvania/Maine
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marine vessel paintings, naval activity
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Civil War Art
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Known as a painter of Civil War marine battle scenes, Xanthus Smith
sold his first paintings at age fifteen. Two years later he
exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and by the start of
the Civil War, he was an established painter. His signature
paintings after the War were small and had minute brushstrokes,
blending clouds and sky with space well defined.
He was born and
raised in suburban Philadelphia, and learned much of his painting
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