Bernhard Smith b. 1820

Also known as B. Smith
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
19th century painter, sculptor and civil servant, whose pre-Raphaelite type medallion portraits of several associates and family members were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London. However, it was his drawings and illustrations of poetry and fantastic scenery borrowed from Australian landscape and vegetation with a spaciousness and clarity of format which is significant within Australian art history.

Citations

  • Tipping, M.J. (1976), 'Bernhard Smith’, Melbourne, VIC : in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, [Nairn, B. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.

  • Fredeman, W.E. (ed.) (1975), 'The P.R.B. Journal’, Oxford, England, UK.

  • Graves, A. (1905), 'The Royal Academy of Arts’, London, England, UK : (reprint 1970).

  • Peers, J. (1991), 'Bernhard Smith’, London, England, UK : in Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture: Nature and Imagination in British Sculpture 1848-1914, [Read, B. (ed.)].

  • Read, B. (1982), 'Victorian Sculpture’, London, England, UK.

  • Sayers, A. (1988), 'Australian Drawings’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Smith, Bernard (1945), 'Place, Taste and Tradition’, Sydney, NSW : (reprint 1980).

  • Woolner, A. (1917), 'Thomas Woolner … His Life in Letters’, London, England, UK.

  • (9 October 1885), Alexandra and Yea Standard.

  • (8 September 1886), Pall Mall Gazette.

  • Lennon, J. (1984), 'Professional sculpture in Sydney in the 1840s and 1850s’, Sydney, NSW : Master of Arts, prelim. thesis University of Sydney.

  • 'Howitt Family Papers’, Melbourne, VIC : La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, (manuscript).

  • 'Bernhard Smith Papers’, Melbourne, VIC : La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, (manuscript).

  • Smith, M.B. (1917), 'Bernhard Smith and his connection with art, or “The 7 founders of the P.R.B”’, Melbourne, VIC : (manuscript) copy at the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • Woolner, T., 'Diary 1852-54’, Oxford, England, UK : manuscript, Bodleian Library, (photocopy National Library of Australia, Canberra & microfilm Australian Joint Copying Project).

  • Read, B. (1984), 'Was there Pre-Raphaelite sculpture?’, London, England, UK : Pre-Raphaelite Papers.

  • Sayers, A. (1989), 'Drawing in Australia’, Canberra, ACT.

  • 'Bernhard Smith Papers’, Manuscript, (Private collection).

  • (1917), 'Bernhard Smith and his connection with art, or “The 7 founders of the P.R.B”’, Melbourne, VIC : (manuscript) copy at the State Library of Victoria.

  • (1917), 'Bernhard Smith and his connection with art, or “The 7 founders of the P.R.B”’, Melbourne, VIC : (manuscript) copy at the British Museum, London, England, UK.

  • (1917), 'Bernhard Smith and his connection with art, or “The 7 founders of the P.R.B”’, Melbourne, VIC : (manuscript) copies in private collections.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870