JOHN WARWICK SMITH

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture

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John Warwick Smith (1749-1831) was a British watercolour landscape painter and illustrator. He first studied art under the animal painter Sawrey Gilpin. He also became a skillful topographical draughtsman on his own initiative. He came to be known as Warwick or ‘Italian Smith’.

He developed his own style of water colour contrasts, and transformed the use of colour in watercolour painting. He was known as romantic water colourist. He settled in Warwick and frequently visited Wales’ areas to paint castles, mountains, lakes, etc. His art shows transformation from highly realistic depiction to slight sense of abstraction, all through the topical details and use of colour. 

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