Editing Nathaniel Smibert (section)

==Biography==
Born in Boston in 1734, Nathaniel Smibert trained as a painter with his father, artist [[John Smibert]]. He painted several portraits, notably of [[Ezra Stiles]], architect [[Peter Harrison (architect)|Peter Harrison]], and Dorothy Wendell (in the Collection of Dr John L Hale, Boston). Smibert died young in 1756, at the age of twenty-two.<ref>''Boston Gazette, or Weekly Journal'', 8 November 1756</ref><ref>Richard H. Saunders. ''John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Pinter.'' Yale University Press, 1995.</ref>