Cottage Interior Watercolour CARLTON ALFRED SMITH (1853-1946)

A lovely cottage interior watercolour by Carlton Alfred Smith, RBA RI ROI (1853-1946), signed to the lower right and likely dating to late 19th Century. This is a really pretty example of the painter's use of light and technique to depict cottage life. It it currently framed and glazed.

38.5cm x 26.7cm

Carlton Alfred Smith was a painter, mainly in watercolour, of gentle rural genre scenes, including many of mothers and daughters.

Carlton Alfred Smith was born in Camden Town, London, on 27 August 1853, the son of a steel engraver. He was educated in France, and then studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, winning gold and silver medals. Initially, he worked as a lithographer before turning to painting. He exhibited mainly at the Royal Society of British Artists (being elected a member in 1879), the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI 1889) and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI 1890), and also at the Royal Academy of Arts.

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