Jeffrey Smart b. 26 July 1921

Also known as Frank Jeffrey Edson Smart, Jeff Smart
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
With a career lasting over sixty years the Adelaide born artist Jeffrey Smart was an expatriate realist painter best known for his eerily still paintings of industrial landscapes and architectural details.
Tags: Urban landscape, Italy
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Jeffrey Smart was born in Adelaide on July 26, 1921, as the only son of Francis Isaac Smart, a real estate agent and his second wife, Emmeline Mildred (nee Edson). His elder half-sister was from his father’s first marriage.

With a career lasting seventy years, the Adelaide born artist Jeffrey Smart is is an expatriate realist painter best known for his depictions of urban landscapes and roads. While being a regular exhibitor in Australia he moved to live in Italy in 1963. His work is held in many Australian public collections.

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Residences
  • 1949 Paris, France
  • 1964 - 2013 Posticcia Nuova, Arezzo, Italy
  • 1949 Paris, France
  • 1964 - 2013 Italy