Editing Nathaniel Smibert

{{short description|American painter}}

'''Nathaniel Smibert''' (January 20, 1734 – November 8, 1756), was an American colonial artist in [[Boston]], [[Province of Massachusetts]], active in the mid-18th century. He is considered to be the first portrait painter in America.<!---A peculiar statement. I'm reluctant to remove it given the title of the book from Yale, but I'm not sure I would agree with it.--->

==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>

==Image gallery==
<gallery>
File:Ezra Stiles by Nathaniel Smibert 1756.jpeg|Portrait of Ezra Stiles, 1756
Image:JohnLovell byNathanielSmibert 18thc Harvard.png|Portrait of John Lovell, 18th century
File:Nathaniel Smibert Portrait of a Cleric.jpg|Portrait of an unidentified man, attributed to Nathaniel Smibert, 18th century
</gallery>

==References==
{{commons category|Nathaniel Smybert}}
{{reflist}}
*{{EB1911|wstitle=Smybert, John|volume=25|page=281}}

==Further reading==
* {{Cite book|last=Bénézit|first=Emmanuel|title=[[Benezit Dictionary of Artists]]|publisher=Gründ|year=2006|isbn=2-7000-3082-6|volume=12|location=Paris|pages=[https://archive.org/details/benezitdictionar12bene/page/1349/mode/1up 1349]|orig-year=first published in French in 1911–1923|via=the [[Internet Archive]]}}
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