Bernhard Smith b. 1820 Greenwich, London, England, UK

Also known as B. Smith
  • Artist (Painter) , (Sculptor)
19th century painter, sculptor and civil servant, whose pre-Raphaelite type medallion portraits of several associates and family members were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London. However, it was his drawings and illustrations of poetry and fantastic scenery borrowed from Australian landscape and vegetation with a spaciousness and clarity of format which is significant within Australian art history.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
Bernhard Smith
Also known as B. Smith
Birth date
1820
Birth place
Greenwich, London, England, UK
Death date
7 October 1885
Death place
Alexandra, VIC
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Residence
  • 1878- 1885 Alexandra, VIC
  • 1874- 1878 Smythesdale, VIC
  • 1863- 1874 Pleasant Creek, VIC
  • c.1861 Crown Lands, Vic
  • 1857- 1861 Ballarat, VIC
  • 1854- 1857 Westernport District, VIC
  • 1852 Melbourne, VIC
  • 1843- 1852 London, England, UK
  • 1840- 1842 Paris, France
  • 1820- 1840 London, England, UK
Other Occupation
  • Civil servant
Arrival
  • 23 October 1852 (Ship: 'The Windsor'; place: Melbourne, VIC)
Active Period
  • 1858- 1885
  • 1838- 1852
Languages
  • English
Training
  • c.1840 Etienne Jules Ramey Studio, Paris, France
  • 1838- 1840 Richard Sass School, Bloomsbury, London, England, UK
  • 1840 Royal Academy's Antique School, London, England, UK
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

painter, sculptor and civil servant, was born in Greenwich, London, third son of (Mr) Lord Henry Smith and Jane Mary, of the Voase family of Anlaby, Yorkshire.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Thomas Woolner
Artist (Sculptor)
associate of
Louis Buvelot
1814
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Painter), Artist (Printmaker)
associate of
Berthe Julie Lucie Mouchette
1846
Artist (Painter)
parent of
William Taylor Smith Tibbits
1837
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Edmund Sasse
1819
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
John Gould
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
D. G. Rossetti
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Holman Hunt
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Georgiana McCrae
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Joseph Reed
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
relative of
John E. Gray
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
John Everett Millais
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
Mr Henry Lord Smith
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
Jane Mary Smith
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
parent of
Minnie Bernhard Smith
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Edward Latrobe Bateman
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Madame Tasca
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
James Panton
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
sibling of
Maria Wise
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
spouse of
Olivia Frances Josephine Boyes
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Edward La Trobe Bateman
1816
Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect), Artist (Painter), Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Charles Ferdinand Hamilton Smith
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Gold Commission
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
(View of the town of Jameson)
Puck
The Joyful Rain
Date
1880
The Joyful Rain, The Solemn Rain
Date
1879
Illustrations from 'The Death of the Thrush'.
Date
1878
Illustrations from 'Shakespeare, Longfellow (Excelsior)'.
Date
1878
(Portrait medallion of a Smythesdale resident)
Date
1877
(Butterflies and flowers)
Date
1870
(Lyrebird)
Date
1870
(Fairy on a mushroom inside a decorative border which incorporates flowers and grotesque masks)
Date
1861
(Gum-blossom)
Date
1860
Two Water Elves
Date
1851
(Mrs Thomas Ringrose)
Date
1848
Fairie
Date
1847
(Portrait sculpture of John Gould)
Date
1847
(Emma A. Smith)
Date
1846
(Medallion portrait of Captain Sir James Ross RN.)
Date
1843
(Medallion portrait of Lieutenant Henry Thomas Smith (RA 1844))
Date
1843
(Medallion portrait of John Richardson)
Date
1843
John Ogilby, Esq
Date
1843
Mrs Mackenzie, of Flowerburn
Date
1843
An Old Satyr Extracting a Thorn from the Foot of a Young Man
Date
1842
(medallion portrait (apparently of Gray))
Date
1842
Collections
Melbourne International Exhibition
1880- 1881
Exhibition ()
Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Vic
Citations:
  • (1917), Bernhard Smith and his connection with art, or "The 7 founders of the P.R.B", (Place: Melbourne, VIC : (manuscript) copies in private collections)
  • (1917), Bernhard Smith and his connection with art, or "The 7 founders of the P.R.B", (Place: Melbourne, VIC : (manuscript) copy at the British Museum, London, England, UK)
  • (1917), Bernhard Smith and his connection with art, or "The 7 founders of the P.R.B", (Place: Melbourne, VIC : (manuscript) copy at the State Library of Victoria)
  • Bernhard Smith Papers, (Place: Manuscript, (Private collection))
  • Sayers, A., (1989), Drawing in Australia, (Place: Canberra, ACT)
  • Read, B., (1984), Was there Pre-Raphaelite sculpture?, (Place: London, England, UK : Pre-Raphaelite Papers)
  • Woolner, T., Diary 1852-54, (Place: Oxford, England, UK : manuscript, Bodleian Library, (photocopy National Library of Australia, Canberra & microfilm Australian Joint Copying Project))
  • Smith, M.B., (1917), Bernhard Smith and his connection with art, or "The 7 founders of the P.R.B", (Place: Melbourne, VIC : (manuscript) copy at the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW)
  • Bernhard Smith Papers, (Place: Melbourne, VIC : La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, (manuscript))
  • Howitt Family Papers, (Place: Melbourne, VIC : La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, (manuscript))
  • Lennon, J., (1984), Professional sculpture in Sydney in the 1840s and 1850s, (Place: Sydney, NSW : Master of Arts, prelim. thesis University of Sydney)
  • Woolner, A., (1917), Thomas Woolner ... His Life in Letters, (Place: London, England, UK)
  • Smith, Bernard, (1945), Place, Taste and Tradition, (Place: Sydney, NSW : (reprint 1980))
  • Sayers, A., (1988), Australian Drawings, (Place: Canberra, ACT)
  • Read, B., (1982), Victorian Sculpture, (Place: London, England, UK)
  • Peers, J., (1991), Bernhard Smith, (Place: London, England, UK : in Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture: Nature and Imagination in British Sculpture 1848-1914, [Read, B. (ed.)])
  • Graves, A., (1905), The Royal Academy of Arts, (Place: London, England, UK : (reprint 1970))
  • Fredeman, W.E. (ed.), (1975), The P.R.B. Journal, (Place: Oxford, England, UK)
  • Tipping, M.J., (1976), Bernhard Smith, (Place: Melbourne, VIC : in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, [Nairn, B. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press)