Engineer, artist, illustrator, and short story writer American , 1838-1915 United States author, artist and engineer, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, a descendant of Francis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Smith became a contractor in New York City and did much work for the federal government, including the stone ice-breaker at Bridgeport, Connecticut, the jetties at the mouth of the Connecticut River, the foundation for the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, the Race Rock Lighthouse (southwest of Fishers Island, New York) and many life-saving stations. His vacations were spent sketching in the White Mountains, in Cuba and in Mexico.   Related Paintings of Francis Hopkinson Smith :. | Portrait of Francois Langlois | Fort Sumter Interior at Sunrise Dec.9.1864 | Portrait of Rivera | Prince Baltasar Carlos on Horseback kh | Portrait of Stanislaw Kostka Potocki |
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SCOTT, Samuel
English Painter, ca.1702-1772 English painter. In 1725 a sea-piece ascribed to Scott appeared at auction in London. In 1727 he was appointed Accomptant in the Stamp Office, Lincoln's Inn Square, London.
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TIZIANO Vecellio
Italian painter, Venetian school (b. 1490, Pieve di Cadore, d. 1576, Venezia).