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Ad Code: 2
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from Auction House Records.
Laundry Day on Lake Ponchartrain Near Mouth of the Tchefuncte River with Steamboat in the Distance
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| A painter of southern landscapes with fishermen, shanties, swamps and moss-laden trees, Marshall Smith Jr. was also the founder of the Southern Art Union (1880). He was born in Norfolk, Virginia and was active in New Orleans from 1870 to 1906. He arrived there as a child and took his first art lessons from Adolphe Jacquet in 1866. In 1870, he became a pupil of Richard Clague, the city's foremost landscape painter, and it was Clague who is credited as the greatest influence on Smith. He also stud (showing 500 of 1371 characters). |
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