Blank Greeting Card, Envelope Included. Size 14.8cm by 10.5cm
St Ives Bay from Clodgy
Robert Borlase Smart (1881–1947)
St Ives Town Council
Image credit: St Ives Town Council
£2.00
Robert Borlase Smart
Painter and draughtsman, born in Kingsbridge, Devon. Studied at Plymouth School of Art, 1897–1900, at the Royal College of Art, 1900–01, then privately with Julius Olsson at St Ives, Cornwall, where Smart died. He was art critic for the Western Morning News for 10 years from 1903 and while in the Army in World War I drew on the Western Front. After the war settled in St Ives and began exhibiting regularly at the RA, RBA, ROI, Fine Art Society and elsewhere. One-man shows included Penwith Gallery, St Ives, 1949 and 1981, and City Art Gallery, Plymouth, 1950 and 1975. Borlase Smart was closely associated with the St Ives Society of Artists, and the Penwith Society of Arts was founded as a tribute to him in 1949. Although a traditional painter himself, Smart encouraged Peter Lanyon to start painting and some of the more radical artists to exhibit in St Ives.
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Part of St Ives Town Council Art Collection, the original painting is on display in one of St Ives Town Council buildings.
