Ralph Earl, 1798 - Noah Smith - fine art print

Description from Art Institute Chicago (© - Art Institute Chicago - Art Institute Chicago)

Ralph Earl garnered portrait commissions primarily from wealthy rural landowners in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont. A loyalist, Earl fled America for England during the Revolutionary War, developing his portrait style, in turn, by studying with Benjamin West (an American painter in London) and through contact with English artists. Returning in 1785, Earl painted this portrait of Noah Smith late in his career, having melded his British training with a simpler, linear style that appealed to his clients of the rural gentry. In this work, Smith, chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, sits assuredly before the viewer; the map at hand, pastoral view at left, and volumes of books behind him signal the sitter’s prominent position as a man of affairs in the young nation.

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The over 220 year-old artwork was painted by Ralph Earl in 1798. The original had the following size: 163,2 × 107,3 cm (64 1/4 × 42 1/4 in) and was painted with the techinque of oil on canvas. The artwork's inscription is: "signed, lower left: "R. Earl / Pinxt / 1798"". Nowadays, this artwork is included in the Art Institute Chicago's digital collection in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. With courtesy of: Art Institute Chicago (licensed - public domain). The creditline of the artwork is the following: Goodman Fund. Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format and has a side ratio of 2 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% shorter than the width. The painter Ralph Earl was a North American artist from United States, whose artistic style can primarily be classified as Rococo. The painter lived for 50 years and was born in the year 1751 in Shrewsbury, Worcester county, Massachusetts, United States and deceased in the year 1801.

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