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Isabel Elizabeth Smith

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While in that city, she became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. During her years of labor in Washington her eyes failed her, but after a season of rest she again went to Paris to learn the Sèvres method of painting on porcelain. She also studied in the
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In 1895 she married F. Carl Smith (1867-1955), a marine and genre painter. The couple worked and studied in Paris for several years, then New York City, to finally settling in Washington, D.C., in 1902. In 1917 they moved to
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When fifteen years of age, she had a severe illness, during which she vowed to build a church for the poor in her native place, which through her aid and influence was done, and to which she gave her interest and help.
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Her father owned a large tract of land in Florida, near the mouth of the St. John's river, where he had an orange grove and a winter home. There she spent several winters.
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On her return she opened a studio in New York City, where she had the best possible recognition from the literary and art circles. While there she was elected a member of
61:. After her education she went abroad and studied in Paris and Dresden. After an absence of nearly three years she returned to the United States and opened a studio in 222: 226: 315: 42:, in 1843. She was of Scotch descent. Her father, Alexander Smith, was born in Perthshire, Scotland. He arrived in the United States in 1820 and located in 290: 197:
A woman of the century; fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life
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She achieved marked success in portrait painting, having many prominent persons as sitters, among them Secretary
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She painted in Cincinnati, and her portraits there were highly praised. She was the instructor in art in
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Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905 (1893).
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Smith early developed a taste for art. She was educated in the
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Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900: A Biographical Dictionary
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Clermont County, Ohio
Belmont County, Ohio
Western Female College
Oxford, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio
Washington, D. C.
Edwin Stanton
Mary Frances Grant Cramer
Ulysses S. Grant
Dresden Gallery
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Sorosis
Chautauqua, New York
Kellogg Memorial Building
Pasadena, California


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