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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
'Natives of Elson's Bay' near Point Barrow, Alaska (3)
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| Born in England in 1800. Smyth entered the Royal Navy at age 13. He was the official artist of Captain Frederick Beechey's expedition to explore the Bering Strait in 1825. The expedition wintered in San Francisco and Monterey during 1826-27. While in California, Smyth made drawings and watercolors of the Carmel Mission, Monterey Presidio, and the flora and fauna. Smyth rose to the rank of admiral before his death in Tunbridge Wells, England on Sept. 25, 1877. In: Peabody Museum (Harvard); (showing 500 of 1394 characters). |
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