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James David Smillie

James David Smillie (1833 - 1909) was active/lived in New York, California.  James Smillie is known for Landscape and coastal view painting, graphics.

A native of New York and the son of an engraver, James David Smillie earned his early reputation for his etching skills but later for watercolor landscapes.  He began etching at age 8, learning from his father, James Smillie (1807-1885).

At age 14, he did a set of plates illustrating John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost.  He had a job as a bank note engraver, and then he and his father had a business, collaborating as engravers with a specialty of bank-notes.  They also did the engravings for the 1857 Mexican Boundary Survey Report.

James David Smillie helped organize the New York Etching Club, and he was the U.S. representative to supply examples of American etchers' work to the Painters-Etchers Society of London.

Although he continued working with etching, drypoint, aquatint and lithography, in 1865, he began doing landscape painting and was especially interested in mountain scenery.

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