John Rowson Smith

John Rowson Smith (1810 – 1864) was a panorama painter in the United States. His father was John Rubens Smith.[1] Several publications about him and his work were published.[2] He produced a successful three reel rendition of the Mississippi River.[3] It was also published in book form.[4]

Painting of Mount Carbon, Pennsylvania, by John Rowson Smith engraved by his father
View of Pottsville, Pennsylvania

He was born in Boston and grew up in Brooklyn before moving to Philadelphia.[5]

Smith was a pioneer in the creation of moving panoramas.[6] He was a rival of John Banvard.[7]

Artist Russell Smith considered him a great scamp and reportedly gave his own son a distinctive name so there would be no confusion between the two.[8]

He died on March 21, 1864, in Philadelphia and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery.

See also

References
  1. "John Rowson Smith (1810-1864) - White Mountain Art & Artists". Whitemountainart.com.
  2. "Smith, John Rowson 1810-1864". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  3. Black, Patti Carr (3 January 1998). Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781578060849 – via Google Books.
  4. Smith, John Rowson (3 January 2019). "Grande panorama Mississipi: viagem pitoresca e artistica por este rio, desde a cascata de Santo Antonio até ao Golfo do Mexico" – via Hathi Trust.
  5. Art, Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American (3 January 1999). 150 Years of Philadelphia Painters and Paintings: Selections from the Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art. The Library Company of Phil. ISBN 9781893287013 – via Google Books.
  6. Huhtamo, Erkki (22 February 2013). Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262313100 – via Google Books.
  7. Collins, Paul (3 January 2019). Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck. Macmillan. ISBN 9780312268862 – via Google Books.
  8. "Schwarz Gallery - Catalog 75 - New Jersery Remembered: Seventy-fifth Anniversary Exhibition". Schwarzgallery.com.
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