Remnant Rubens

Michael Prodger on Art

THIS YEAR SEES SOME BIG ANNIVER-saries, and some small. Among the big: Giorgio Vasari, the father of art history, who died in 1574; the great German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich who was born in 1774; and the National Gallery, which was founded in 1824. The small slip more easily beneath notice but it would be remiss not to give a nod to a figure on the very fringes of the British art world, George Smart (1774-1846). Smart, in a modest and parochial way, offers an alternative view of Georgian society to the grand narrative of Reynolds and Lawrence or the rural imaginings of Turner and Constable. He has more in common with the satirist Thomas SMART STYLED HIMSELF “ARTIST IN CLOTH AND VELVET FIGURES TO … THE DUKE…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2024

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