Item #266999 Watercolour: Bicyclists in front of Church. William Thomas Smedley.

Watercolour: Bicyclists in front of Church.

[c.1880s].

Price: $600.00


About the item

Signed lower right. 13 x 9.5 inches. Fine.

Item #266999

William T. Smedley (1858-1920) studied art and engraving at then Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, then in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens, of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian. Today Smedley is best know for his illustrations of Twain's “The Gilded Age” (1899). In 1890 he received the Evans Prize of the American Watercolor Society.