Thomas Lochlan Smith (1835-1884)
Birthplace/Origin: Glasgow, Scotland
Biography/Statement:
Thomas Lochlan Smith was born in Glasgow, Scotland and came to America as a young boy destined to be a landscape painter. He resided in Albany, New York by 1859 where he studied with George H. Boughton and moved to New York City three years later (1862 until his death) an astute landscape and figure painter. He was an Associate of the National Academy (1869) and exhibited with the Boston Art Club (1873-1882), the National Academy of Design in NYC (1863-1884) and the Brooklyn Art Association (1864-1883), the PAFA and the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition (1876). Who Was Who in American Art states (vol. 3, p. 3092) Smith “specialized in winter scenes.”
He was influence by the Hudson River and Barbizon Schools and usually painted charming, luminous genres in nature that give glimpses into the rural life of the mid-1870s.